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0 pointsangersock12y ago0 comments

They were arbitrarily decided a long time ago by people who put much more thought into it than you or I, most likely.

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dragonwriter12y ago· 1 in thread

Especially in the case of HTTP/1.1, it wasn't "arbitrary", it was based on quite a bit of experience with HTTP in the wild.

(I don't actually believe near any of these things are "arbitrary"--was being facetious in response to tone of the poster.)

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