- From: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 97 15:54:08 PST
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
I basically agree with Roy on this one; don't add more digits to the status-code number. One thing that has always bugged me is that an HTTP response carries exactly one status code, and we often have to work hard to figure out which one that should be. There are times when it would be better to have a way to communicate multiple dimensions of status information. That's why we added the Warning header. Maybe we should be encouraging protocols layered over HTTP (such as WEBDAV) to think in terms of adding new headers, rather than new status codes? I.e., HTTP/1.1 200 OK DAV-Status: DAV/1.3 3141592 Pie is ready This seems to be a better way of dealing with layering. -Jeff
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