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Re: WG Last Call for draft-schulzrinne-http-status-00.txt

From: Graham Klyne <GK@acm.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 16:35:18 +0000
Message-Id: <3.0.32.19971121131802.0087ecc0@pop.dial.pipex.com>
To: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com 
At 22:35 20/11/97 +0100, Koen Holtman wrote:
>And if you really want to send a 5 digit code like 45205 to a http
>client without prior negotiation, you could always invent some wrapping
>scheme with responses like
>
>HTTP/1.1 299 Extended status code
>Status: 45205 Epibration complete
>Content-type: text/html

Nice thought.  But if you're going to take this route you might as well go
further and adopt RFC1893-style enhanced status codes, methinks.

GK.
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Graham Klyne
Received on Friday, 21 November 1997 07:39:31 EST

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