From 4a281919162c13eb0f86cb2b966cabc30dcc7ca4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Boren <ryan@git.wordpress.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:00:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Send 403 instead of 500 for comment flood protection. Allow
 specifying response code for wp_die().  Props DD32. fixes #7246

git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@9335 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
---
 wp-includes/comment.php   | 2 +-
 wp-includes/functions.php | 8 ++++++--
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/comment.php b/wp-includes/comment.php
index d76fd7dffc..b33b817368 100644
--- a/wp-includes/comment.php
+++ b/wp-includes/comment.php
@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ function check_comment_flood_db( $ip, $email, $date ) {
 			if ( defined('DOING_AJAX') )
 				die( __('You are posting comments too quickly.  Slow down.') );
 
-			wp_die( __('You are posting comments too quickly.  Slow down.') );
+			wp_die( __('You are posting comments too quickly.  Slow down.'), '', array('response' => 403) );
 		}
 	}
 }
diff --git a/wp-includes/functions.php b/wp-includes/functions.php
index 282bab9364..9ab187b901 100644
--- a/wp-includes/functions.php
+++ b/wp-includes/functions.php
@@ -2208,10 +2208,14 @@ function wp_nonce_ays( $action ) {
  *
  * @param string $message Error message.
  * @param string $title Error title.
+ * @param string|array $args Optional arguements to control behaviour.
  */
-function wp_die( $message, $title = '' ) {
+function wp_die( $message, $title = '', $args = array() ) {
 	global $wp_locale;
 
+	$defaults = array( 'response' => 500 );
+	$r = wp_parse_args($args, $defaults);
+
 	if ( function_exists( 'is_wp_error' ) && is_wp_error( $message ) ) {
 		if ( empty( $title ) ) {
 			$error_data = $message->get_error_data();
@@ -2245,7 +2249,7 @@ function wp_die( $message, $title = '' ) {
 
 	if ( !function_exists( 'did_action' ) || !did_action( 'admin_head' ) ) :
 	if( !headers_sent() ){
-		status_header( 500 );
+		status_header( $r['response'] );
 		nocache_headers();
 		header( 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8' );
 	}