- From: Jim Gettys <jg@pa.dec.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 12:21:14 -0800
- To: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Cc: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Whether at least existing HTTP implementations can possibly use more than three digits depends strongly on implementation details: a) If the implementation takes the code, and then performs a MOD 100 operation, to get a subcode for the code type, then it makes sense to allow for more than three digit status codes. b) If existing implementations just take the first decimal digit, and then switch off of the remaining digits, more than 3 digit status codes are feasible. Without some data on whether implementations (particularly proxies) do a) or b), any discussion of more than three digit codes is pretty silly. I suspect that a) predominates, but having never implemented a proxy or server, or for that matter, client library, I can't say. So implementers, how is the jungle out there??? Your editor, - Jim Gettys
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