Re: Translation of http status code to text

[joakim]

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

>> SM> The symbol part depends on the rest of the patch: what do you use the
>> SM> symbol for?  Do you even need it?
>>
>> I was going to change url-http.el like so, in url-http-parse-headers:
>>
>>       (case url-http-response-status
>>         ((url-http-code-multiple-choices) ; was 300, uses defconst
>> ...
>>          nil)
>> ...)
>>
>> and I thought generating the defconsts would be best without dynamically
>> generating the symbol name as "url-http-code-%s" from the symbol in the
>> table.
>>
>> But instead I can say (url-http-code-number 'multiple-choices).  It's
>> really a matter of taste.
>
> Please don't add symbols.  Developers prefer to refer to numbers.
>
> The "number to text" mapping is necessary only to display codes
> in a readable form to users.  Please re-read Lennart's original
> request:
>
>   Is there a list in Emacs for translating http status code to readable
>   text (like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes)?

As a developer I'd like both numbers and symbols. Maybe thats just me. I
think this is a bit particular for the http protocol, since some codes
are extremely well known, whereas others are not.

-- 
Joakim Verona