[Web-SIG] Status code, status header

[Ian Bicking]

After a little thought, I'm -1 on a status header, even with 
email.Message.  Mostly because at some point I believe Alan asked about 
what to do about a Location header, thinking in terms of CGI behavior 
where if you don't provide the status header the server guesses -- 
either doing 200, or 304 if there's a Location header to a remote 
location, or an internal redirect otherwise.  WSGI explicitly doesn't 
allow that, but it's a clearer requirement when the application has to 
explicitly say what the status code is.  If status was a header, I think 
we'd have to deal with a situation when that header was missing.

I'm also +1 on turning status into an integer.  I think it makes things 
a little simpler, and those message strings are just a distraction.  The 
final server can put that string in ("200 OK", etc) if it wants to, but 
if it doesn't it doesn't matter.

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Ian Bicking  /  ianb at colorstudy.com  / http://blog.ianbicking.org