On 2/24/06, Justin Erenkrantz <justin@erenkrantz.com> wrote:
> On 2/24/06, Bruce Elrick <bruce.elrick@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Indeed, abuse of HTTP response codes if I ever saw it! ;-)
>
> 403 might be slightly better if we're to pick nits. (The server is
> forbidding itself from generating the response.) But, very few
> programs care what the specific 4xx code is if isn't 404 or 401.
>
> I do like the status line though. ;-) Keeping it distinctive may let
> it be easier for clients to figure out what a 403 in this case means
> when they put it into Google as ra_dav will print the status line in
> the error displayed to the user. ra_serf is likely to wind up doing
> the same; now, it'd just abort(). ;-) -- justin
And here's an updated version that includes fixes to all the problems
Justin pointed out to me. Still needs to be fixed to pull a list of
paths to block from the config file though.
-garrett
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Received on Mon Feb 27 20:32:33 2006