- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 09:25:17 +1000
- To: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Cc: httpbis Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 30/05/2011, at 8:51 AM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > On May 27, 2011, at 7:14 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote: > >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-14#section-8.2.4 >> >> Does anyone know of software that actually does something useful with this status code? > > 203 is for annotation proxies and other intermediaries that add something to > the response. It is the only way to indicate that contents have changed from > the origin's response, which may be important for sigs/MACs, so I would not > want to deprecate it. OK. I'd like to clarify it so that this is more apparent; i.e., the semantic is "this has been transformed" (perhaps linking it into no-transform's semantics), because I've seen some people interpret this as "it's a cached response." Will come up with a proposal. Cheers, -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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