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CGI & Location
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Robinson)
Wed Jan 24 08:55:15 1996
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 96 13:47 GMT
From: drtr1@cus.cam.ac.uk (David Robinson)
To: www-talk@w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
What should a server do if a script returns
Location: /an/otherfile
Myheader: value
should it
a) ignore the Myheader, and simply act as if /an/otherfile was requested
b) return /an/otherfile but add the Myheader header?
If b), should the headers added by the script take precedence over headers
appropriate for the new document?
Apache and NCSA <= 1.3 do (a). I have heard a rumour that NCSA 1.5 does (b).
I receiveda request from a user who wants Apache to do (b) so that he
can add netscape 'Window-Target:' headers to the servers respose.
I'd appreciate any input so that I can get a concensus to settle this point
for the CGI specification.
David Robinson.
Ref: draft-robinson-www-interface-00.txt available via
<URL:http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/%7Edrtr/cgi.html>
