RE: JW4: error code for partial results

OK, fine with me. Let's propose it.

Alan Babich

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Whitehead [mailto:ejw@ics.uci.edu]
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 1:40 PM
To: 'DASL'
Subject: RE: JW4: error code for partial results




> I suppose the issue here is the precious nature of 3 digit
> error codes -- they aren't making any more of them.
> If people think that "partial results" is sufficiently general
> (and I suspect it probably is), it would be fine with me to add it
> to the 3 digit error codes. Would getting a new error code delay
> approval of the DASL spec?

The IETF has complete change control over the HTTP status code space, and
hence an IETF Proposed Standard specification can add new status codes.

- Jim