- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:02:12 +1000
- To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
- Cc: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
<https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/issues/80> This is the only non-editorial issue open on this draft. We discussed it in Prague, but didn't make much headway. I think there's agreement that it's important to make the distinction, but other than that there wasn't much direction from the room. To move things along, I'll put forth three straw-man proposals: 1. Specify that 451 is for origin server use only; if the network censors something and is allowed to state that this is happening, it'll need to use a different (possibly defined in the future) status code. 2. Specify a second status code (452?) to indicate that the network is doing the censoring. 3. Specify a header (Status-Source?) to disambiguate whether the code is being generated by the network or the origin. Thoughts? If we don't come to any conclusion, #1 seems like the fallback, since #2 or #3 can always be added later. Cheers, -- Mark Nottingham https://www.mnot.net/
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