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You can return a 451 error with a descriptive page, same as how sites have custom 404 pages

We need new 6xx codes. "Requests that are fine, need no redirection and have no errors but are blocked because of politics, overbearing laws or regime"

For example, "An HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles":

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7725

That's what 451 means.

It's "user error, you are trying to access the site from some dystopian society that prohibits it".

Yeah but I want to know if I should submit, protest or revolt. I need more codes :)

451 is such a good reference though, other codes just wouldn't be the same :(

It's largely meaningless to anyone US-based sci-fi nerds, and by itself it tells the user nothing about which jurisdiction the legal issue is in.

My scheme allows for 666 but I get it.

The 451 response's body will contain further instructions.

I guess. But I'd like to grep my access logs to get some high level metrics for the uprising.

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