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Re: [Captive-portals] practicality of 511 HTTP status code

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 27 June 2017 15:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Captive-portals] practicality of 511 HTTP status code
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On 2017-06-27 16:56, Dave Dolson wrote:
> Mark, thanks for the info about 511.
> 
> But to the working group, I think this discussion about HTTP status codes is a distraction.
> 
> I think the ICMP approach is a superior solution that doesn't require modification of transport-layer data.
> 
> Redirection of clear-text HTTP is an existing practice. It will continue for some time;

Yes.

> but there is no need to tweak it, since tweaks would not be recognized by existing software anyhow...

Existing software == browsers? They should be totally OK with 511. Do 
you have evidence to the contrary?

> ...

Best regards, Julian

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