[9160] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: CGI scripts / Location header
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren New)
Fri Oct 13 14:03:25 1995
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 13:59:47 +0100
From: Darren New <dnew@sgf.fv.com>
To: jkillian@access.digex.net
Cc: www-talk@www0.cern.ch, Daniel DuBois <ddubois@rafiki.spyglass.com>
In-Reply-To: <199510131632.MAA11977@access5.digex.net>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
> One thing that's being lost here is that the response from the CGI
> program and the GET requests are separate operations by the browser.
Not the way the problem was stated.
> Your questions assumes (or implies) that it is treated as a "single"
> operation, of which you have total control. You don't! Specifying the
> Location header merely instructed the server to return a redirect
> response.
Incorrect. This is only true if the Location: header has a URL after it.
If it has a local file after it, the server delivers the file without
issuing a redirect. Read the spec.
Of course, if you *are* redirecting to a different URL, then everything
you've said applies.
