Status Information - summary?

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Mark Cox asks about the Status: headers:

>Was a decision ever reached about how feasible this is?   Did anyone
>attempt to add this?

Well, it's extremely feasible.  A nph- CGI script can trivially
output the Status: headers.  A quite small modification to libwww2
could pass Status: contents on to the browser (look in HTMIME.c).

As far as I know, noone has added it to any browser or server.
Too helpful to the user in some cases and too simple to implement,
I guess.