Outputting HTTP error codes?

[Kent Multer]

Hi folks,

I'm working on a project where the store will accept incoming requests from another server with custom Action codes. In case of errors, the client wants the store to reply by setting a value other than 200 in the HTTP reply status. I've used miva_output_header() before to generate type-301 redirects, so I have the general idea. But I have a few questions about the details
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- If the store is using the Status header to send an error code, is there another header that I can use to send some sort of description text?

- Does the store have to send some minimal amount of text or other "real" content for this to work? Or can it just output a header and exit?

Thanks --

[ILoveHostasaurus]

You can always use a 200 status code, meaning success, with a custom header if you'd prefer to give the other server result codes that come at the HTTP layer instead of in the payload. You'd just not want to use a common one that's already used, such as htscallerid (the cookie name Empresa uses), mm5-STORECODE-basket-id (insecure session id), etc. You can make up the name and value. So you could have:

X-Kent-Status: success123

[Kent Multer]

Looks good! Thanks for the quick reply too!