I don't see how this avoids hardcoding it. the value is still hardcoded.

and we agreed in the past that we would not use these constants internally in Symfony. Status code are more readable than seeing the constant name and having to remember which status code it represents (especially for common status codes)

@stof Yes but this is hardcoded in just one place. By the way I think it is much more readable HTTP_FOUND (which is text) than 302.

I think most web developers know http status codes and not necessarily the corresponding names. I personally know what a 302 redirection is but don't know what is the corresponding name.

In the past changes like this have been refused. Please refer to this discussion to know more about the reasons of doing it. Thanks!

Closing as it does add any value, the constant value won't change anyway, that's HTTP.