Re: Pre-Denied: Status Code (#3410)

421 has already been used in RFC 9110.

Next one should be 432 based on MDN.

On Fri, Apr 3, 2026 at 2:37 PM Rory Hewitt <rory.hewitt@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I might be inclined to skip to 421...
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> On Fri, Apr 3, 2026 at 2:20 PM Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:
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>> On Apr 3, 2026 at 2:14:23 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
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>>> <https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/issues/3410>
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>>> A specific status code needs to be selected.
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>>> The next unassigned 4xx status code is 419. No use is documented in MDN or wikipedia, but I see a few resources that mention a single PHP framework is squatting on it to indicate that a session token is expired.
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>> And the next one would be 420….  -T
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>>> What do people think?
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>>> Cheers,
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>>> --
>>> Mark Nottingham   https://www.mnot.net/
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>>>
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> Rory Hewitt
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