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[Clive D.W. Feather]

Jeffrey M. Vinocur said:
>>    Other values for the
>>    status may exist; the definition of these other values and the
>>    circumstances under which they are returned may be specified in an
>>    extension or may be private to the server. A client SHOULD treat an  
>>    unrecognised status as giving no information.
> 
> I'm a little concerned about the last sentence there.  I mean, a client 
> has to do *something* should it encounter an unrecognized status.

Not really. The client can attempt to post, refuse to post, or ask the
user whether it should attempt to post. That's about all that field tells
you in practice.

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