Why are status codes exposed everywhere as ints?

[danroth27]

As originally reported by @nathan-alden in #5532:

Why are status codes exposed everywhere as ints? What happened to using the HttpStatusCode enum? I am aware of the StatusCodes class that contains all the status codes as constant integers, but this is not discoverable from IntelliSense; less-experienced developers are going to type in the integer, instead. At the very least, an overload should have been provided that contained the standard HTTP status codes.

[danroth27]

See also #5605

[khellang]

We've been through this before. See aspnet/HttpAbstractions#345.

[tpluscode]

@khellang and where did that end? I do agree that a simple int is not a great fit. But is it there to stay?

[davidfowl]

It's here to stay.