Re: Zero Click Bitcoin Micropayments using HTTP 402

On 29 December 2014 at 19:47, Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com
> wrote:

> On 2014-12-29 18:54, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>
>> On 12/28/14 2:05 AM, Anders Rundgren wrote:
>>
>>> In addition, I don't even think the idea using HTTP 402 actually buys
>>> you anything since it
>>> has no meaning in a browser (and thus for the user) which means that
>>> there must always be
>>> a *proxy* involved which does the actual work.
>>>
>>
>> If 402 has no meaning in the browser, how does 200 magically have meaning
>> to said browser?
>>
>
> Just to verify my claim I wrote a small Servlet that returned 402.
> Using sendError (402) IE, Chrome and Firefox returned an error page saying
> that "payments are needed".
> Using setStatus (402) the same browsers did the same thing as for 200
> showed the HTML page.
>
> None of these responses has any use for payments as far as I can tell.
>

Are you expecting 4xx to do something special?  Does 404?  Or 401 or 403?

I think this is off topic.


>
>
>  I remain quite confused about your understanding of Web Architecture.
>>
>
> I'm talking about the browser-based scheme Melvin is advocating which still
> is completely undocumented.
>
>
>  A browser is one kind of HTTP User Agent. That's it!
>>
>
> Indeed, and I guess that is the one Melvin talked about.  If it was not
> he should tell us.
>
> Regards,
> Anders
>
>
>
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