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Re: 302 Found?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ari Luotonen)
Mon Apr 17 18:57:40 1995
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 18:37:46 +0500
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From: Ari Luotonen <luotonen@netscape.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
> What response code should the server issue to a HEAD request on a
> directory? NCSA gives "302 Found" which must be from an old version of
> the spec, because my 3/8/1995 copy says 302 is "Moved Temporarily".
> Even so, it's nonobvious to me what the response should be. My best
> guess is 200 OK.
It's a 302 redirect because NCSA autoredirects directory URLs without
a trailing slash to a URL with a trailing slash to maintain the
integrity of links.
Cheers,
--
Ari Luotonen ari@netscape.com
Netscape Communications Corp. http://home.netscape.com/people/ari/
501 East Middlefield Road
Mountain View, CA 94043, USA Netscape Server Development Team
