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Re: [Captive-portals] practicality of 511 HTTP status code
Regardless of how 511 is handled, I think it is orthogonal to the work at hand. It only helps with the clear-text http, which I think operators would be resistant to change.
David Dolson
Sandvine
Original Message
From: Julian Reschke
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 11:55 AM
To: Dave Dolson; Mark Nottingham
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Captive-portals] practicality of 511 HTTP status code
On 2017-06-27 16:56, Dave Dolson wrote:
> Mark, thanks for the info about 511.
>
> But to the working group, I think this discussion about HTTP status codes is a distraction.
>
> I think the ICMP approach is a superior solution that doesn't require modification of transport-layer data.
>
> Redirection of clear-text HTTP is an existing practice. It will continue for some time;
Yes.
> but there is no need to tweak it, since tweaks would not be recognized by existing software anyhow...
Existing software == browsers? They should be totally OK with 511. Do
you have evidence to the contrary?
> ...
Best regards, Julian