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Re: Additional status codes in HTTP/1.1

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Thu, 25 July 2013 16:58 UTC

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Subject: Re: Additional status codes in HTTP/1.1
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On 2013-07-25 11:06, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> Hi Julian,
>
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:52:29AM +0200, Julian Reschke wrote:
>> On 2013-07-25 10:39, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>>> ...
>>> Then why are the other codes documented at all? They should be in the IANA
>>> registry! Some are so obsolete they're almost never used in the wild
>>> nowadays.
>>> ...
>>
>> The registry is a set of pointers to specs. Each status code needs to be
>> in *some* spec.
>
> I'm perfectly fine with this, I think that what is missing is just a
> pointer at the place the reader would find it when looking at existing
> status codes.
>
> I would propose to amend the following sentence in 6.1 :
>
>     Note that this list is not exhaustive -- it does not include
>     extension status codes defined in other specifications.
>
> Like this :
>
>     Note that this list is not exhaustive -- it does not include
>     extension status codes defined in other specifications. The
>     complete list of status codes is maintained by the IANA. See
>     section 8.2 for details.
>
> Would that be OK for you ?

Si.

<http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/changeset/2310>

Best regards, Julian

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