Re: Getting to Consensus on 1xx Status Codes (#535)

In message <53C7CAD4.6080909@gmx.de>, Julian Reschke writes:

>> We can do 100 better, don't need 101 and we have no idea how any
>> future 1xx codes might or might not work anyway.
>
>The last part doesn't make any sense.
>
>My proposal is to treat them *exactly* as in 1.1.
>
>What exactly do you mean by "might or might not work"?

We've seen only one new additional 1xx code in ages and we already
regretted it.

I'm against adding a "contigency plan" to HTTP/2 on the unlikely
probability that 103 will ever happen, given that 1xx already works
like shit in HTTP/1.

Nobody says we cannot add support for 1xx later, if it suddenly
transpires to be a killer-app for something.

In the meantime I propose we add a flag to HEADERS (ON_YOUR_SIGNAL
?) and give it the meaning "I'll send the body when you send me a
WINDOWS UPDATE" and close the long sad saga of 1xx dysfunctionality.

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Received on Thursday, 17 July 2014 13:15:21 UTC