Re: 1xx response semantics

Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Tue, 05 July 2011 06:53 UTC

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From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
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On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 05:51:37PM +1200, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> >Maybe we should indicate that "headers are not significant on intermediate
> >responses such as 1xx, and are only meaningful on final responses such as
> >all other ones, including 101" ?
> >
> 
> Its always puzzled me why Upgrade got 101 while CONNECT gets 200. They 
> are not that dissimilar.

I perfectly agree with you on this, the issue is that it's been spec'd
like this and we have to live with it (as with a lot of special cases
for many other things).

Regards,
Willy