From: W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:55:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] Isolate If-Modified-Since handling in gitweb
Message-ID: <20120327195558.GA32699@odin.tremily.us>
In-Reply-To: <201203272124.23145.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 08:24:22PM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> No, the status line was omitted unintentionally, thanks for fixing this.
> I guess that web server (at least Apache) adds it if it is missing.

From the CGI 1.1 specs [1], section 9.2:

  If the script does not return a Status header, then "200 OK" should
  be assumed.

So, perhaps it is better to skip the Status header on success (less
for the server to parse).

[1]: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-robinson-www-interface-00

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