HTTP status code for "access blocked to protect you against malware/phishing/etc"?

• From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
• Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 12:37:28 +0100
• To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org, hrpc@irtf.org
• Message-ID: <20171120113728.nkp3jipxbotqt563@nic.fr>

We have 451 for "unavailable for legal reasons" but I find
<https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-status-codes/http-status-codes.xml>
no code for "Unavailable because we have blocked access to this
malware/phishing/bad site".  Since there are many network middleboxes
which do this sort of blocking, would it be a good idea to have a
specific status code?

The only draft I've found about this specific idea is
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-lemon-tls-blocking-alert/>,
but it is TLS-specific.

Received on Monday, 20 November 2017 11:38:02 UTC