[5199] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: HTTP ``definition'' vs practice
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Sanders)
Thu Aug 18 12:03:14 1994
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 17:55:30 +0200
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From: Tony Sanders <sanders@bsdi.com>
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Bob Denny writes:
> >Is URI deprecated, wishful thinking, backward compatible, a crock, or
> >what?
>
> Windows httpd sends back Location: followed by URI: I wondered the same thing, but
> decided better safe than sorry.
Location: was the originally proposed header and then was switched to URI:
later on. Use of Location: is deprecated but is still "the standard"
until everyone switches to URI: (which also sports other neat features
like vary=...).
--sanders
