On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 02:34:29PM -0500, Eric Covener wrote: > On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 10:53 PM, <n...@apache.org> wrote: > > Author: niq > > Date: Fri Dec 26 19:53:32 2008 > > New Revision: 729586 > > > > URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=729586&view=rev > > Log: > > CGI: return 504 (Gateway timeout) rather than 500 when a script > > times out before returning status line/headers. > > PR 42190 > > Any concern that canned message for 504 is going to cause confusion?
I don't see why 504 is more appropriate than 500 for this case. 504 is specifically defined for cases where the server is acting as a gateway or proxy, which it is not here. (by the 2616 definitions of gateway and proxy) joe
