Re: What happened to Retry-After and 503?

At 09:05 AM 9/1/95 -0500, Chuck Shotton wrote:
>In reading through the latest spec, I can find no reference in the docs for
>the 503 "Service Unavailable" response nor in the Response Headers section
>detailing the "Retry-After" header. This header was discussed at length
>last Fall and Roy had added it to the spec (when 503 was "Server Busy").

Chill dude.  Need to follow the list a little more closely.

The latest 1.0 spec represents a "Best current practice" document.  *Lots*
of things were ripped out of it.  1.1 will contain the real version of the
"this is what we should be doing" HTTP spec, and should be out "real soon now".
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Dan DuBois, Software Animal                          ddubois@spyglass.com
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Received on Friday, 1 September 1995 07:24:05 UTC