- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:34:01 -0700
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CAHBU6iu1nwC7kcURcwnPin0J1ZehuD-PL9LBD4sH5KhsDL4o1Q@mail.gmail.com>
Aaaaaaaand, it turns out MNot was right; I checked with an expert, and 451 is heavily used for “redirect” in the Msft ecosystem, notably including HotMail’s hundreds of millions of users. Consider it “4xx” (which I would still argue for as opposed to 5xx). -T On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote: > > On 12/06/2012, at 11:36 AM, Tim Bray wrote: > >> With apologies to MNot for ignoring his opinion (which I generally >> agree with) about not picking particular >> status values; but in this case I yielded to temptation. > > Since we'll be in Vancouver soon, this may cost you beer. :) > > Let's plan to have some discussion there in the WG meeting; Tim, would you be willing to present? > > Regards, > > >> >> -T >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: <internet-drafts@ietf.org> >> Date: Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 6:33 PM >> Subject: New Version Notification for >> draft-tbray-http-legally-restricted-status-00.txt >> To: tbray@textuality.com >> >> A new version of I-D, draft-tbray-http-legally-restricted-status-00.txt >> has been successfully submitted by Tim Bray and posted to the >> IETF repository. >> >> Filename: draft-tbray-http-legally-restricted-status >> Revision: 00 >> Title: A New HTTP Status Code for Legally-restricted Resources >> Creation date: 2012-06-11 >> WG ID: Individual Submission >> Number of pages: 5 >> URL: >> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-tbray-http-legally-restricted-status-00.txt >> Status: >> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-tbray-http-legally-restricted-status >> Htmlized: http://tools.ietf.org/html/submission.filename }}-00 >> >> >> Abstract: >> This document specifies an additional Hypertext Transfer Protocol >> (HTTP) status code for use when resource access is denied for legal >> reasons. >> >> >> >> >> The IETF Secretariat >> > > -- > Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/ > > >
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