Re: status code for header fields to big

On 2011-07-01 05:52, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> Personally - I think 413 is good for this; the response body and/or headers can fine-tune as to why it was rejected (as with any other error response).

I'm not totally convinced; maybe we can treat this as a separate issue 
("expand scope of 413"?), and make progress on #282 independently of it?

> Recall that we've already tuned the definition of 413 to say
>
>     The server is refusing to process a request because the request
>     representation is larger than the server is willing or able to
>     process.
>
> note 'representation' -- which includes headers.

"Entity", as used in 2616, included the headers as well; so this was 
just a terminology update, right?

Best regards, Julian

Received on Friday, 1 July 2011 14:19:24 UTC