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by a6l6e6x
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12/22/15 11:42:54 AM
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New "New HTTP error code 451 to signal censorship"
The Register:
After a three-year campaign, the IETF has cleared the way for a new HTTP status code to reflect online censorship.

The new code – 451 – is in honor of Ray Bradbury's classic novel Fahrenheit 451 in which books are banned and any found are burned.

The idea is that rather than a web server, proxy or some other system returning a 403 code to a browser when information is blocked – i.e. you are not authorized to see it – the 451 status code will mean "unavailable for legal reasons."
Good to see increased transparency!
Alex

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

-- Isaac Asimov
Post #407,124
by Another Scott
12/22/15 11:48:20 AM
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New Nice. Thanks.
     "New HTTP error code 451 to signal censorship" - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - Dec. 22, 2015, 11:42:54 AM EST
         Nice. Thanks. -NT - (Another Scott) - Dec. 22, 2015, 11:48:20 AM EST

Should be pasted on all overpasses.
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