[Web-SIG] Status code, status header

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 10:01 PM 8/30/04 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
>After a little thought, I'm -1 on a status header, even with email.Message.

I think email.Message is also dead, due to its absence in Python versions 
prior to 2.2.


>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.

I'm still -1 on this, for the reasons stated previously.  I might be 
convinced if you can show me that a significant number of popular servers 
already have the necessary table(s) to do this with; e.g. Twisted, ZServer, 
Apache (CGI/FastCGI), mod_python, etc.

In theory, the "reason-phrase" can be null.  In practice, I wonder.  Also, 
I don't think the message strings are "just a distraction": they clarify 
the intent of the code that contains them.