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Re: Progress reporting in future HTTP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Reed Wade)
Wed Aug 10 12:04:46 1994
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 1994 17:46:55 +0200
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From: Reed Wade <wade@cs.utk.edu>
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>Where "101" is an informational message (some percentage complete)
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>Rick Troth <troth@rice.edu>, Rice University, Information Systems
I _really_, _really_ like the idea of message codes; maybe I want
a gas guage type progress indicator instead of a natural language
message.
It'd also be nice to have some mechanism for getting arbitrary
messages to the user. A priority code would be useful as well.
examples-
User-Message: 0 This server will be getting a new paint job soon.
User-Message: 9 Look out! Someone's trying to kill you!
It might make sense to combine both sorts of informational
messages (progress, arbitrary info, and others) in one
"Info:" header type.
-reed
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