Your metaphor is clearly better; grandma performing HEAD requests on fish (a URI) is priceless.
However, if granny were in a hurry, she may ask the waiter "Will my order be up soon?" to which the waiter would, after checking with the kitchen and receiving a 304 Not Modified on the still raw fish resource, he could decide to then 307 to some free breadsticks resource.
Of course, after lunch, dear granny will eventually receive a 402. Let's hope she has money today, or she may end up 401'ed and have to start washing dishes.
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Your metaphor is clearly better; grandma performing HEAD requests on fish (a URI) is priceless.
However, if granny were in a hurry, she may ask the waiter "Will my order be up soon?" to which the waiter would, after checking with the kitchen and receiving a 304 Not Modified on the still raw fish resource, he could decide to then 307 to some free breadsticks resource.
Of course, after lunch, dear granny will eventually receive a 402. Let's hope she has money today, or she may end up 401'ed and have to start washing dishes.