- From: Vance Huntley <vance@webgenesis.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 09:06:12 -0400
- To: James Marshall <jsm@crl.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
At 16:31 -0400 96.07.13, James Marshall wrote: >Is anyone interested in a simple mod to HTTP to allow more efficient link >updating when a 301 response occurs? I once designed an addition to HTTP >to allow updating of referrers the first time any user follows an old >link, rather than waiting on (at best?) a periodic link-check performed by >the server. > >I designed it as an exercise; now that I have it, and we're in >1.2-issues-phase, I thought I'd ask the WG if there's any interest. Is >there enough long-term efficiency gain to warrant a change to the >protocol? Implementors of link-editing HTTP servers, does this appeal to >you at all? I agree that updating broken links is a useful feature in a web server. But why does this need to be addressed in the standard? Is this really anything more than a useful utility for webmasters ( as opposed to a client-server communication issue which must be addressed in the standard )? Apologies in advance if I'm just being dense :-) ------------ Vance Huntley Director of Technology & GenesisJive Guy WebGenesis, Inc., Ithaca, NY 14850 vance@webgenesis.com --- 607.255.8499 Check out "The Globe"! --- http://www.theglobe.com/ ------------
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