Re: Additional status codes in HTTP/1.1

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 09:51:05AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> Le Jeu 25 juillet 2013 08:18, Julian Reschke a écrit :
> > On 2013-07-25 07:24, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> A user notified me that status codes 428, 429, 431, 511 introduced in
> >> RFC6585 by Mark & Roy are not mentionned at all in the current 1.1
> >> draft.
> >>
> >> Shouldn't we copy them there, or at least add a reference to RFC6585 so
> >> that implementers know that these codes exist ?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Willy
> >
> > No, that would send the wrong message.
> >
> > The list in the spec is not exhaustive; there's an IANA registry for a
> > reason.
> 
> But is there any good reason not to consolidate the codes that were known
> at the time?

I was thinking the same, maybe just a pointer to the respective RFCs,
especially if we know that some of them are already in use.

Best regards,
Willy

Received on Thursday, 25 July 2013 07:54:12 UTC