[5200] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: HTTP ``definition'' vs practice
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl)
Thu Aug 18 12:51:21 1994
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 18:42:58 +0200
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> 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=...).
I also noticed that if a CGI script under NCSA httpd outputs a
Location: header, the server intercepts this and turns it into a 30x
error, but if you output a URL: header it reaches the client
unchanged...
--Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl>
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