Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!rpi!clarkson!grape.ecs.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp Subject: Re: Change error code: "502 Can't give that to you" to 413? Message-ID: Date: 9 Jan 91 23:00:44 GMT References: <278a949a.1452@uop.uop.edu> <278abc3f.1d8a@uop.uop.edu> Sender: @grape.ecs.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) Organization: /home/sun.soe/ecs/nelson/.organization Lines: 11 In-Reply-To: nsayer@uop.edu's message of 9 Jan 91 06:46:24 GMT In article <278abc3f.1d8a@uop.uop.edu> nsayer@uop.edu (Nick Sayer) writes: In general, some distinction is called for between 4xx and 5xx. Perhaps 4xx should mean "can't do it with these arguments", and 5xx should mean "can't ever do it"? -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) FAX 315-268-7600 It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear -- Freeman Dyson I joined the League for Programming Freedom, and I hope you'll join too.