Re: #296: 203 Non-Authoritative Information: deprecate?

+1 from me.

At some point it would be nice if the section on transforming intermediaries referred to it and the warn code as well.

Cheers,


On 07/06/2011, at 10:04 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:

> On 2011-05-31 10:08, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> Agreed on both counts. Now #296:
>>   http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/296
> 
> OK, proposed patch at <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/attachment/ticket/296/296.diff>.
> 
> The new text would be:
> 
> 8.2.4.  203 Non-Authoritative Information
> 
>   The representation in the response has been transformed or otherwise
>   modified by a transforming proxy (Section 2.3 of [Part1]).  Note that
>   the behaviour of transforming intermediaries is controlled by the no-
>   transform Cache-Control directive (Section 3.2 of [Part6]).
> 
>   This status code is only appropriate when the response status code
>   would have been 200 (OK) otherwise.  When the status code before
>   transformation would have been different, the 214 Transformation
>   Applied warn-code (Section 3.6 of [Part6]) is appropriate.
> 
>   Caches MAY use a heuristic (see Section 2.3.1.1 of [Part6]) to
>   determine freshness for 203 responses.
> 
> ...and the Changes section would state:
> 
>   Broadened the definition of 203 (Non-Authoritative Information) to
>   include cases of payload transformations as well.  (Section 8.2.4)
> 
> Best regards, Julian

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