HTTP response code

[John Caron <caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If a server gets a WCS request that generates a Service Exception 
Message, what should the HTTP response code be? 400 - "Bad Request" ?? 
Is this in the spec somewhere ?


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I know that in the WMS specification, ServiceExceptions are supposed to be returned with HTTP Status Code 200 OK. I would be surprised if it were different for WCS.

	-Sean

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> If a server gets a WCS request that generates a Service Exception 
> Message, what should the HTTP response code be? 400 - "Bad 
> Request" ?? 
> Is this in the spec somewhere ?