Comment on Show HN: I made a simple persistent counting APIparentComments−angersock13yThey were arbitrarily decided a long time ago by people who put much more thought into it than you or I, most likely.−dragonwriter13yEspecially 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.−angersock13y(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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They were arbitrarily decided a long time ago by people who put much more thought into it than you or I, most likely.
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.)