[Bug 17222] treat status code 308 consistently with 301, 302, and 307

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17222

--- Comment #2 from Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> 2012-05-28 14:34:16 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> So now each time we talk about redirects we have to reference two documents? Is
> there not some better way?

In theory you could just talk about the semantics of the status code (does it
really have "redirection semantics" as per category 1 in
<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-19.html#status.3xx>),
and point the reader to the IANA registry for status codes. 

The bigger issue here is that, optimally, HTTPbis would answer this question
for unknown 3xx codes as well (because, after all, introducing 308 shouldn't
require special support from browsers). But then, with the addition of 308, the
set of "real" redirect codes should be complete anyway.

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Received on Monday, 28 May 2012 14:34:20 UTC