Re: Errors not involving the HTTP server per se

Ask Bjoern Hansen (ask@develooper.com)
Wed, 1 Nov 2000 18:53:02 -0800 (PST)


On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Kurt D. Starsinic wrote:

>     I'm working on a patch to LWP::UserAgent to detect failures other than
> those that can be assigned HTTP status codes -- particularly, network
> failures.

That sounds absurdly useful. 
 
[...]
>     Before I do any more work on the right patch, does anybody have a strong
> view that LWP::UserAgent and HTTP::Status should _not_ be cognizant of
> errors that aren't HTTP errors?

IMHO, everything should be fine they're just marked clearly as such
in the documentation (and hence are something that might change if
the status codes gets official values).


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