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Re: [Doh] [Ext] A question on the mix of DNS and HTTP semantics

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Mon, 19 March 2018 15:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Doh] [Ext] A question on the mix of DNS and HTTP semantics
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On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 10:42:42AM +0000,
 Mike Bishop <mbishop@evequefou.be> wrote 
 a message of 24 lines which said:

> There's a reasonable argument that if Content-Type is
> application/dns-udpwireformat, it should be processed by the DNS
> client regardless of the HTTP status code.

It can be dangerous, no? If the status code is 500, it means there was
a serious problem in the server, the content may be, for instance,
truncated.

> (And that a 200 with any other Content-Type is an error.)

No, because we want to be future-proof (allow application/dns+json in
the future).

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