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[spec] Undefined status codes

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📅 First Message: 2021-10-26 09:20
📅 Last Message: 2021-10-26 09:38

1. nervuri (nervuri (a) disroot.org)

📅 Sent: 2021-10-26 09:20
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I am writing a REST API for Gemini and need to have more than one status
code coupled with a response body (to parallel the 409 response in
Convergence's Notary protocol [1]).  Only 2x status codes allow for
response bodies, and the only defined 2x status code is 20.  No problem,
I thought.  The second digit is optional, so gemini clients and
libraries should accept any 2x status code and treat unknown ones as 20.
Right?  Well, not in practice.  The clients I tested treat the request
as failed if the status code begins with 2 but is anything other then
20.

Let's clarify what the behavior of clients ought to be.  I think this
makes the most sense:


	if the response contains an undefined status code that begins with

 1-6, the client must handle it as though the second digit were 0;

	if the response contains a status code that begins with anything other

 than 1-6, the client must consider it invalid (of course).

I also opened an issue on Gitlab for this, see [2].

[1] https://github.com/moxie0/Convergence/wiki/Notary-Protocol#409
[2] https://gitlab.com/gemini-specification/protocol/-/issues/43

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2. Alan (gemini (a) bunburya.eu)

Subject Changed! New Subject: Re: [spec] Undefined status codes
📅 Sent: 2021-10-26 09:23
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Sorry if I'm missing something but is this not already clearly set out in the spec?

> A client SHOULD deal with undefined status codes
> between '10' and '69' per the default action of the initial digit. So a
> status of '14' should be acted upon as if the client received a '10'; a
> status of '22' should be acted upon as if the client received a '20'.

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3. nervuri (nervuri (a) disroot.org)

📅 Sent: 2021-10-26 09:38
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On Tue, 2021-10-26, Alan wrote:
> Sorry if I'm missing something but is this not already clearly set out
> in the spec?
> 
>> A client SHOULD deal with undefined status codes
>> between '10' and '69' per the default action of the initial digit. So a
>> status of '14' should be acted upon as if the client received a '10'; a
>> status of '22' should be acted upon as if the client received a '20'.

Ah, you're right, Sean took care of this [1].  Completely missed it.
This text is not on gemini.circumlunar.space, though.

Developers, take note.

https://gitlab.com/gemini-specification/protocol/-/blob/master/specification.gmi#L229

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