Re: #300: Define non-final responses

In message <7D5E6715-1377-45EC-A00E-F3FB6D392AAC@gbiv.com>, "Roy T. Fielding" w
rites:

>As mentioned before, that statement is false.  101 is never the final
>response to the request.  Whether or not a later response is in the same
>syntax of HTTP is irrelevant to the semantics being described here.

Actually 101 can be the final response, it all depends on which
protocol you switch to, and since that is outside the scope of HTTPbis
there are no absolute answers to this.

People use UPGRADE to switch to all sorts of protocols, including,
to my horror, TN3270.

That is why I wrote that "101 is final as far as HTTP goes."

What happens next is simply not part of the HTTPbis standard any
more.


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Received on Sunday, 17 July 2011 21:15:52 UTC