Feature Request:

I'd like to be able to do have a status() call to go along with getwork() by default.

Currently, what I do is try to connect to the pool before launching a miner on it, authorize appropriately, then GET /, to see if i get a 400 code. I'd rather be able to get back a dict with information like:

"next_scheduled_downtime"
"switch_to_this_pool_server"
"load"
"administrator_note"

Ratelimiting status() would be fine as well, as saying "we're up, but we don't know you well enough to let you use status() yet".

I also don't want my bad requests to make the system think I'm attacking it.