On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Mark Baker wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 10:44:26PM +0100, Joris Dobbelsteen wrote: > > Still, I'm interested in a (practical) sitiation where one needs to redirect > > a non-GET/HEAD request? > > When the user agent trusts the server as it would a proxy, e.g. > > POST http://auth1.example.org/proxy?uri=http://auth2.example.org/some-path/ HTTP/1.1 > Host: auth1.example.org > ... > > There, the server is providing proxy-like capabilities, but in gateway > form. Even so: a) The user did not choose this proxy trust relationship b) The user-agent has no way to discern this request from any other POST request in the proposed change you have described.Received on Wednesday, 5 November 2003 12:37:08 GMT
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