Webware for Python

Hi,

I'm pondering about the possibility to tweak WebKit to use HTTP status 
codes to report errors. Currently, it returns error pages, just like 
normal ones, with 200 OK.

IMO this is not a great idea. For one, this hinders work of log 
analyzers (Apache), as you have to dig through WebKit logs to find out 
how many errors actually were in requests, handled by WebKit itself. 
Secondly, it complicates automatic testing as I have to parse html 
content returned to check if there were an error instead of simply 
checking for status codes.

Therefore I'd prefer to have the html error page served with, say, "501 
WebKit application error" or something like that.

Hence my questions:

1. What do you people think about this idea?
2. How could I configure/patch WebKit to get the desired behaviour?

Re: [Webware-discuss] use HTTP status codes - WebKit From: Jason Hildebrand <jason@pe...> - 2004-12-08 14:44 On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 11:55 +0200, Max Ischenko wrote: > I'm pondering about the possibility to tweak WebKit to use HTTP status > codes to report errors. Currently, it returns error pages, just like > normal ones, with 200 OK. > IMO this is not a great idea. For one, this hinders work of log > analyzers (Apache), as you have to dig through WebKit logs to find out > how many errors actually were in requests, handled by WebKit itself. > Secondly, it complicates automatic testing as I have to parse html > content returned to check if there were an error instead of simply > checking for status codes. > Therefore I'd prefer to have the html error page served with, say, "501 > WebKit application error" or something like that. This is in CVS, in HTTPExceptions.py, Application.py and HTTPResponse.py. (search for HTTPException). peace, Jason

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