[Zope] RESPONSE.setStatus(), what does that do?

[Peter Bengtsson]

At 13:34 2003-02-03 +1100, pskipwort@touchcorp.com wrote:
>Without looking at the docs, I'd assume this sets the HTTP response code
>- ie '200' for a successful request, etc etc.

But doesn't Zope do that automatically?

>Cheers
>
>P
>
>
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>Subject: [Zope] RESPONSE.setStatus(), what does that do?
>
>
>I noticed in Dieter Mauer's Chapter 3 book this DTML::
>
>   ...
>   <dtml-except>
>   <dtml-call "RESPONSE.setStatus(error_type)">
>   ...
>
>What does that setStatus actually do? Or, what does it help?
>
>
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