Re: Advice to define where new status codes can be generated

On 2012-06-26 02:39, Mark Nottingham wrote:
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> On 25/06/2012, at 4:56 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
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>> On 2012-06-25 05:44, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>>> Just a quick thought: in <https://svn.tools.ietf.org/svn/wg/httpbis/draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p2-semantics.html#considerations.for.new.status.codes>, we talk about guidelines for new status codes. It might be worth advising people to explicitly say whether intermediaries can generate the status code, in addition to (or instead of) the origin.
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>>> Make sense?
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>> Probably yes. Is there a default though?
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> Probably "unspecified." Which implies "both."

I believe in dog food. So if we ask for this for the codes, we should 
state it for existing ones as well. In which case having a default would 
reduce verbosity...

Best regards, Julian

Received on Tuesday, 26 June 2012 07:13:46 UTC