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Re: web documentation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Phillips)
Tue Aug 23 19:38:14 1994
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 01:31:54 +0200
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From: George Phillips <phillips@cs.ubc.ca>
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Nat Torkington wrote:
>Case in point: the fact that redirection is done through the Location:
>header line, not the URI: header line. The `documentation' is little
>more than a wishlist.
To be fair, I think the implementors were at fault here. I recall
that URI: was in the documentation but Location: was used by accident.
Once that got into Mosaic and NCSA HTTPD, there was no stopping it.