[9156] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: CGI scripts / Location header
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Behlendorf)
Thu Oct 12 04:26:20 1995
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 00:31:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
To: Daniel DuBois <ddubois@rafiki.spyglass.com>
Cc: www-talk@www0.cern.ch
In-Reply-To: <9510111614.AA14819@rafiki.spyglass.com>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
On Wed, 11 Oct 1995, Daniel DuBois wrote:
> Scenario: User requests a URL that points to an existant CGI script. CGI
> script returns a "Location: localfile.html" header, indicating a
> 'server-side' redirect, and this file doesn't exist.
Let me use different terminology. C = client, S = server
C: GET /script.cgi
S: 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: host://server/other-file.html
C: GET /other-file.html
S: 404 Not Found
Whether this is done as two separate connections or one using keep-alive
doesn't really matter, I don't think.
BTW, any reason why Location *has* to be an absolute URL and not a
relative one? That's always been a burden - Netscape and the Microsoft
Explorer handle relative paths alright.
> Is it proper to send a 404 Not Found message?
I think so. The user agent interface should clearly show it was the
request for the second resource, and not the first, which caused the
problem.
Brian
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