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And an HTTP server can return a custom body for most errors, so the server can provide even more info if it wants.
by autarch 15y ago
And an HTTP server can return a custom body for most errors, so the server can provide even more info if it wants.
- jrockway 15y agoSMTP MTAs can also "provide more info if it wants", but that's what the article considers a problem. What the author of the article wants is a way to dumb down error messages (or, less cynically, automatically correct errors), which is not easy with free-form responses. Imagine a web page that returns a page that says "404 Not found" with a 200 status code. Brokenness ensues.