Re: 1xx response semantics

"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Tue, 05 July 2011 07:18 UTC

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In message <20110705065339.GF12909@1wt.eu>, Willy Tarreau writes:
>On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 06:13:03AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>After all, saying that 101 is an exception to 1xx
>is not much different from saying that 204 is an exception to 2xx in
>that it does not hold any body.

Explaining that it is in the wrong group would make the overall scheme
clearer and hopefully deter similar additions in the future.


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