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Re: BASE interpretation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (wmperry@spry.com)
Wed Oct 12 16:00:58 1994
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 20:58:07 +0100
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John Franks writes:
>
> In article <9410112055.aa14779@paris.ics.uci.edu>, you write:
> >
> > These and other issues are documented in the Internet-Draft at
> >
> > http://www.ics.uci.edu/WWWdocs/papers/draft-ietf-uri-relative-url-00.txt
>
> While we're on the subject of relative URLs I would like to know if they
> are allowed in HTTP redirects. I have not found a browser (though I
> haven't tested a lot) which allows a relative URL with a "302 Found" or
> "301 Moved" response from a server. This seems wrong to me, but the fact
> that no one seems to support it makes me feel like the only one in the
> band marching in step. What's the story?
Emacs-w3 supports relative links in a redirect, but only because the spec
was unclear about whether it should be a full URL or not.
From taking a quick peruse through the AIR Mosaic source, it appears that
it will work with relative links in a redirect also, but I can't double
check it right now, since the NCSA server won't allow you to put a
non-fully specified URL in a 'Redirect' statement in the srm.conf file.
-Bill P
