net/http: Status shouldn't include StatusCode

[kkroo]

In parsing: HTTP/1.1 200 OK

StatusCode is correctly set to 200 but Status is parsed to 200 OK when it should only be OK. This leads to inconsistency with http.StatusText which only returns OK instead of 200 OK

https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/net/http/response.go#L176
https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/net/http/status.go#L85

[gopherbot]

Change https://golang.org/cl/233201 mentions this issue: net/http: remove redundant numeric StatusCode from Status message

[mdlayher]

I suspect it is too late to modify this behavior, since the field is documented to return a string in https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#Response.

[toothrot]

I don't see how this can be changed without breaking a lot of software. The current code is behaving as documented.

/cc @bradfitz @rsc

[seankhliao]

closing as unfortunate