- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:32:48 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > > > > The intent is for DNS and HTTP 4xx (except auth errors) or 5xx errors > > to be treated the same way. I'll try to make the spec clearer about > > this. > > I guess the real question is whether it should be treated differently > from, say, a socket-level error (e.g. "no network interface is up", "no > route to host", etc, etc). Seems to me like it shouldn't. > > Basically, the current proposed Gecko patch treats DNS failure > specifically differently from the other possible error status codes > (socket errors, out of memory errors, user pressing the stop button, > etc, etc). If feel like we should treat all such failures (and non-2xx > HTTP responses, since this is the level above the HTTP impl and hence > never sees 3xx responses unless redirection failed) identically. > > Does that make sense? Yes, that was the intent of the current spec. I'll try to clarify it when I next work on this section. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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