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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status

What specific section or headline is this issue about?

HTTP Status codes

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

The status codes are presented in the documentation and their respective pages are presented as if both the status code (e.g. 500) and reason phrase (e.g. Internal Server Error) are both part of a single one required token.

However from what I can gather, according to the official standards, the reason phrase is optional in HTTP/1.1 and not supported in HTTP/2.

From RFC 9110:

The reason phrases listed here are only recommendations -- they can be replaced by local equivalents or left out altogether without affecting the protocol.

What did you expect to see?

It should be made more clear that the status code and reason phrase are distinct, and noted that the reason phrase is optional.

Example: Instead of linking to a status code page like 400 Bad Request as it is currently it can be linked to like 400 (Bad Request).

Each individual page status page currently has a section titled "Status" where it presents the status code along with the reason phrase, this will also need to be adjusted and seperated into a "Status code" and "Recommended reason phraae" section.

Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?

https://stackoverflow.com/a/38655533

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