[tor-commits] [torspec/master] Prop 278: Return a more standard HTTP status on failure.

[nickm at torproject.org]

commit bea0a22d10196e3d137e41bbed13f19d7c27e056
Author: Yawning Angel <yawning at schwanenlied.me>
Date:   Fri May 12 19:26:08 2017 +0000

    Prop 278: Return a more standard HTTP status on failure.
    
    "406 Not Acceptable" is the status code that implementations are
    supposed to return when a request cannot be serviced due to `Accept-*`
    headers.
---
 proposals/278-directory-compression-scheme-negotiation.txt | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/proposals/278-directory-compression-scheme-negotiation.txt b/proposals/278-directory-compression-scheme-negotiation.txt
index 475e4af..64b1839 100644
--- a/proposals/278-directory-compression-scheme-negotiation.txt
+++ b/proposals/278-directory-compression-scheme-negotiation.txt
@@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ Target: N/A
   response and thus notifying the client of its decision. The
   "Content-Encoding" header can at most contain one supported
   compression scheme. If no mutual compression scheme can be negotiated
-  the server must respond with an HTTP error status code of 415
-  "Unsupported Media Type".
+  the server must respond with an HTTP error status code of 406
+  "Not Acceptable".
 
   For example: