Re: Progress reporting in future HTTP

Reed Wade (wade@cs.utk.edu)
Wed, 10 Aug 1994 11:27:14 -0400


>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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