Re: Why does Spyce send a Status response header?

On Apr 29, 2007, at 7:07 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote:

> Dunno, it was added w/o comment in revision 135.

I wonder if it was only meant for debugging. "Status" doesn't seem to  
have any official weight as a header. It isn't even in the list of  
headers in RFC 4229 which "defines the initial contents of an IANA  
registry that catalogs permanent HTTP header field-names, and of an  
IANA repository that catalogs provisional HTTP header field-names."
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4229.txt

I can't think of a situation where a client could get to the header but  
not the response code, so the information in the Status header seems  
just a waste of bytes. My vote (not that anyone asked!) would be to  
remove it if such a matter should ever come up for a public vote. But  
then there's the old "if it ain't broke..."

Thanks
Philip





> On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:04:46 -0400, "Philip Semanchuk"
> <[email protected]> said:
>> Hi all,
>> I just noticed that in the function sendHeaders() in spyceCmd.py Spyce
>> sends a response header of "Status" that simply repeats the HTTP
>> response code and text:
>>     self.origout.write('Status: %3d "%s"\n' % (self.returncode,
>> resultText))
>>
>>
>> I can't figure out what this header might accomplish; can anyone
>> enlighten me?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Philip
>>
>>
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