- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 20:24:16 +0200
- To: Robert Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com>
- CC: "ietf-http-wg@w3.org Group" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Robert Sayre wrote: > > I recently got into a debate with a colleague about whether it would > be acceptable to use higher 5xx codes for custom status codes. I > maintained no, it's a shared namespace, we shouldn't do that. But the > response was "show me where it says you can't do that". To me it seems > implied, but maybe it's not to someone who wants to Get Work Done as > fast as possible by writing a switch statement on a number. > > Could we get a sentence explaining that adding status codes requires > coordination? Yes, and that coordination is defined in <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2817#section-7.1>. Not a good place, though, thus <http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.1/rfc2616bis/issues/#i59>. Best regards, Julian
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