As designed 2.1 Beta 5 - Board is active - Error 503?

[frm]

Affected version

2.1 Beta 5

I'm unsure if this is intentional or not, but kicking a 503 as opposed to the 200 causes errors when you require 3rd party tools to check your site for various things.

How to replicate:

1. ACP -> Options -> Board active -> Uncheck "Board is active" : Get error 503 (page still renders, but 3rd party tools fail because of 503)
2. ACP -> Options -> Board active -> Check "Board is active" : Get error 200 (page renders as normal)

Is there a config.php setting for this to always throw 200 despite the setting, intentional, or a bug?

 

[Mike]

This is 100% intentional and the correct code to return (as it indicates that the service is temporarily unavailable, which is true as the requested content isn't rendering).