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HankLiu_159320
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Sep 03, 2014

Can you return a status code without content or location?

Hello

 

Can I throw a http response code without any location or content?

 

e.g. HTTP:response 400

 

Would this be syntactically legal or will it throw some error during runtime? I wasn't able to find a good example on this. Thanks!

 

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  • What_Lies_Bene1's avatar
    What_Lies_Bene1
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    Sep 03, 2014

    According to the RFC, status code of 400 does not require any further 'meta-information' to be provided.

     

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    What_Lies_Bene1
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    Sep 03, 2014

    Sorry, I'm getting emails telling me you have responded but I just can't see them here for some reason.

     

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    What_Lies_Bene1
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    Sep 04, 2014

    I don't see why something like

    HTTP::respond 400

    wouldn't work. You could refine it somewhat by specifiying a HTTP version

    -version 1.1

    and also prevent a Server header being sent using

    noserver

    but I'd hope it would work just fine with HTTP::respond 400