- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:23:18 +0000
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, httpbis Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Roy Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
In message <4DEF6761.1000605@gmx.de>, Julian Reschke writes: >On 2011-06-08 13:57, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> 203 should just be dropped. >> ... > >Well, we just came to the conclusion a few days ago that we can't drop it. Then keep it, and give it a sensible definition, without inventing a new class of unnecessary HTTP mangling beasts. Suggestion: 203 Non-Authoritative Information For reasons not specified, the response is not authoritative, but expected to be sufficiently indicative of what the authoritative response would have been, that it merits attention. Users should be alerted to this fact if the client decides to present the response. One example use could be proxies returning expired copies when the origin server is unreachable. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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