Re: [Webpush] status code for messages dropped before TTL expiration

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Wed, 11 November 2015 21:23 UTC

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Generally, I think that we wanted to ask http(bis) for opinions.  But
your suggestion here prompted a thought...

On 11 November 2015 at 12:26, Darshak Thakore <d.thakore@cablelabs.com> wrote:
> Alternately we can define a new header (and carry the TTL as one of the
> tokens in the header) and a corresponding status code (preferably a 5XX
> code) that is in the same vein as the Expect header with the 417 code.

Maybe we can just use TTL.  If it is present (and therefore non-zero)
then it's an indication that the TTL hasn't run out, even though the
message resource is Not Found/Gone.