On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 06:53:02PM -0800, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Kurt D. Starsinic wrote:
>
> > I'm working on a patch to LWP::UserAgent to detect failures other than
> > those that can be assigned HTTP status codes -- particularly, network
> > failures.
>
> That sounds absurdly useful.
>
> [...]
> > Before I do any more work on the right patch, does anybody have a strong
> > view that LWP::UserAgent and HTTP::Status should _not_ be cognizant of
> > errors that aren't HTTP errors?
>
> IMHO, everything should be fine they're just marked clearly as such
> in the documentation (and hence are something that might change if
> the status codes gets official values).
Should a connection error be is_client_error() or is_server_error()?
My purist view is that it should be neither, but that it should be
is_error(), and that its numeric value should be undef. Thoughts?
Peace,
* Kurt Starsinic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -------- Senior Software Architect *
| `If we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldn't be called |
| research, would it?' -- Albert Einstein |
