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[SPEC] Encouraging HTTP Proxies to support Gemini hosts self-blacklisting

Jason McBrayer jmcbray at carcosa.net

Tue Feb 23 02:21:13 GMT 2021

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Dave Cottlehuber writes:

403 Forbidden is ideal for this, or one of the 50x error codes. In

practice most systems will retry a 50x request but not a 403.

I feel that by analogy, status code 418 might be appropriate.

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