Subject: [httpwg/http-extensions] on status codes (#563)

From: HTTP issue updates <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2018 19:41:32 +0000 (UTC)

I think FOH (foo over http), has a tendency to encourage "when x happens, use http code xxx"... the draft talks about not minting new xxx, but doesn't explore why specifying xxx is an iffy idea.

you can really only control what the server emits.. and even then it might be in conflict with some other possible return codes.. but the client needs to be prepared to deal with anything because the server might not be a FOH server.

to generalize - a received error code isn't a strong signal of what actually happened.

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