- From: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 08:52:38 -0700
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
+1 .. having a :reason header field would be cheap and painless. It can be made optional and, I suspect, most implementations will ignore it, but for the folks who use it (and I have seen a few) it avoids a bit of hassle. On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: > On 2013-08-06 15:45, Martin Thomson wrote: >> >> https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/issues/202 >> >> #202 raises a question about the removal of the reason phrase. >> >> I haven't heard of cases where the reason phrase carries semantics. I >> should hope that no implementation ever does that. >> >> Those people that require semantics should be using headers. I like >> the current draft and would encourage people to leave this as it is. > > > Right in principle. > > However, people who feel strongly about the reason phrase will then just go > ahead and mint a new header field; it would save everybody a lot of time if > they wouldn't have to and just use a predefined header field. > > Best regards, Julian > >
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