- From: Mike Schinkel <mikeschinkel@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:00:44 -0500
- To: "'Henrik Nordstrom'" <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
- Cc: <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > > Does HTTP support POST redirect? I thought it did not. > > It does. In several forms. > > We have > > a) The original 301/302 redirects, which was meant to tell > the user agent that the resource has moved and the sane > request should be retried at the new location. However, > almost everyone (if not all) implements it wrongly using a > GET request instead. > > b) To solve this RFC2616 adds the 303/307 redirects, where > 303 SHOULD result in a GET and a 307 SHOULD result in a POST > (or whatever method was used for the first request). > > > I still don't see how anything could break unless the > person issuing > > the 301 wants it to break. Or maybe I'm just completely > misunderstanding the issue? > > The issue is 'a'. Specs saying one thing, most user agents > and servers another... Thanks for the clarification. I made a bad assumption. -- -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org http://atlanta-web.org - http://t.oolicio.us
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