[cabf_validation] Clarifying Acceptable Status Codes for Following Redirects in methods 18 and 19

[Ryan Sleevi]

To clarify: The "intention" aspect is because the status codes in 6.4 are
used to establish a new IANA registry (in Section 8.2 of RFC 7231), which
RFC 7238, Section 6 then updates.

Did you mean to reference https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7538 though?
That's updated (in both the IANA registry and in the IETF) as being the
standards-track version of 308.

Are you thinking it's better to clarify that 301, 302, 307, and 308 are
permitted, or to reference the IANA registry so that 300 and 303 are also
permitted?

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 12:45 PM Niko Carpenter via Validation <
validation at cabforum.org> wrote:

> Methods 3.3.2.4.18 and 3.2.2.4.19, added in ballot SC25, say "Redirects
> MUST be the result of an HTTP status code result within the 3xx
> Redirection class of status codes, as defined in RFC 7231, Section 6.4."
> While I believe the intention was that following a 308 redirect should be
> acceptable, RFC 7231 does not define it.  Instead, it mentions, in
> section 6.4.7, that it is defined in RFC 7238. I think we should clarify
> that following a 308 redirect is acceptable in a new ballot, or the
> spring cleanup ballot.
>
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