Re: PROPOSAL: i76 Use Proxy

I don't think a SHOULD NOT is necessary; it should probably look  
something like 402 Payment Required IMO.


On 11/03/2008, at 8:52 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:

> Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> No further discussion, so calling this closed.
>
> So what exactly do we do here?
>
> Currently we have:
>
> "9.3.6 305 Use Proxy
>
> The requested resource MUST be accessed through the proxy given by  
> the Location field. The Location field gives the URI of the proxy.  
> The recipient is expected to repeat this single request via the  
> proxy. 305 responses MUST only be generated by origin servers.
>
>    Note: [RFC2068] was not clear that 305 was intended to redirect a  
> single request, and to be generated by origin servers only. Not  
> observing these limitations has significant security consequences."
>
> Make it...:
>
> "9.3.6 305 Use Proxy
>
> This status code is deprecated (see Section xyz) and SHOULD NOT be  
> generated."
>
> And then in the Changes section note what it used to be...:
>
> "Deprecate 305 Use Proxy status code, because user agents did not  
> implement it. It used to indicate that the requested resource must  
> be accessed through the proxy given by the Location field. The  
> Location field gave the URI of the proxy. The recipient was expected  
> to repeat this single request via the proxy. (Section 9.3.6)"
>
> BR, Julian


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