Re: New Status Code -- 2xx Greedy Hotel?

The problem is that current browsers wouldn't know what to do with  
it, so adoption will be difficult at best.


On 15/03/2007, at 1:55 PM, Thomas Roessler wrote:

> I wonder if a specific redirect code wouldn't be better.
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> Thomas Roessler, W3C  <tlr@w3.org>
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> On 2007-03-15 13:48:17 +0000, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
>> To: "ietf-http-wg@w3.org Group" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
>> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:48:17 +0000
>> Subject: New Status Code -- 2xx Greedy Hotel?
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>> After being in hotels for a few weeks, I'm starting to wonder  
>> whether a new 2xx HTTP status
>> code could be defined whose semantic is "This isn't what you asked  
>> for, but here's some
>> information about how to get network access so you can eventually  
>> get it."
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>> 2xx so that browsers will display it. AFAICT, they do; or at  
>> least, Safari and Firefox do (see
>> <http://www.mnot.net/test/222.asis>). IE? 4xx might be more  
>> appropriate, but I despair of
>> "friendly" error messages. (thought they could be padded, I suppose).
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>> A new status code so that feed aggregators, automated clients,  
>> etc. can differentiate what they
>> asked for from your hotel / conference centre / etc. asking for  
>> cash in order to get network
>> access, and not get horribly messed up as a result.
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>> It would also be useful in those cases where you get redirected  
>> somewhere to login and get a
>> cookie for authentication; e.g., Yahoo!, Google, Amazon, etc. Same  
>> situation, but slightly
>> different use case.
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>> Thoughts?
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>> Mark Nottingham     http://www.mnot.net/
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