Re: NEW ISSUE: Drop Content-Location

tor 2006-11-30 klockan 00:06 +0100 skrev Julian Reschke:

> And, btw, would RoyF's suggested change 
> (<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2006OctDec/0192.html>) 
> fix the problem for you?

After some serious consideration on the implications I think this change
should at most be done a note documenting that many user-agents ignore
Content-Location, maybe angled as an HTTP/1.0 relic. Content-Location
did not exists in HTTP/1.0, so any server wanting to support HTTP/1.0
clients can not rely on the user-agents understanding Content-Location
for establishing the base URL.

I think it's a good feature to keep, allowing very nice optimizations of
the URL-namespace if used correctly for defining the base URL, and can
already find very good use outside the browsing use case of HTTP. Just
sad there is too many sites not sending correct headers making it hard
to deploy in the browsers.

The specifications as they are is pretty clear on this issue, even if
it's not repeated all over the place. Quite unlike many other situations
where implementations gets things wrong.

Regards
Henrik