According to RFC 2068 (http1.1) 205 means "reset content"
> The server has fulfilled the request and the user agent SHOULD reset
> the document view which caused the request to be sent. This response
> is primarily intended to allow input for actions to take place via
> user input, followed by a clearing of the form in which the input is
perldoc HTTP:Status seems to agree.
However 205 is undefined in HTTP1.0 (RFC 1945), so I'm not sure what's
going on.
>
> However, this got me to thinking, which beats working anytime, so I wrote the
> following Perl snippet:
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
>
> use HTTP::Status;
>
> for (my $code = 0; $code < 1000; $code++) {
> $msg = status_message($code);
> print "$code $msg\n" if $msg;
> }
>
> The result told me that a 205 meant, "Reset Content". However, I tried
> accessing a non-existent address with IE 5.5 and Netscape 4.6, the only two
> browsers I've got, and both returned a 205 and "DNS lookup failure". I tried
> LWP::UserAgent on a non-existent address and got, "500 Can't connect to
> www.a.b.com:80 (Bad hostname 'www.a.b.com')". The same access, via a proxy
> server, returned, "500 cache detected error".
>
> So, is the message returned by HTTP::Status incorrect, or am I just missing
> something?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rodney
>
