[11092] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: 302 redirections and base url
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Koen Holtman)
Thu Jan 29 14:01:02 1998
From: koen@win.tue.nl (Koen Holtman)
To: danielh@econ.ag.gov
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 19:25:14 +0100 (MET)
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <199801250011.TAA08279@www10.w3.org> from "danielh@econ.ag.gov" at Jan 24, 98 06:45:29 pm
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
danielh@econ.ag.gov:
[....]
>** A suggestion (or does such a mechanism exist)?
>
>Is there some way for an origin server (say, with a special response
>header) to inform a user-agent to redirect the request to a new
>location; BUT, to use the "current location" (of this origin server) as
>the "base-URL"?
No, these is no standard or widely supported way to do this. The
target server needs to be involved somehow, for example by supplying
<BASE href= > in the documents, as you suggested.
>danielh@econ.ag.gov
Koen.
