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		foobarian on Jan 7, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hacker News down, unwisely returning HTTP 200 for ... Seems like a fair point in principle, except in this case HN is one of the few sites I don't need Google to get to and don't care about any other tools that might rely on returned status codes.

sysop073 on Jan 7, 2014 [–]

Tools like web browsers?

JetSpiegel on Jan 7, 2014 | [–]

Of course. foobarian sends an email with the URL to a service and it returns the webpage, which he reads in emacs.

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