Re: Remaining issues related to redirects [#43 #295]

On 2011-09-02 12:47, Julian Reschke wrote:
> On 2011-09-02 03:06, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> ...
>> Having HTTP define fragment combination (both in the single and dual
>> cases) makes sense, because IME, client-side stacks handle HTTP
>> redirects automatically, before the format-specific machinery ever
>> gets to see the HTTP. Requiring -- or even allowing -- that this be
>> format-specific opens up a huge can of worms in most implementations,
>> and makes the Web a much more complex place.
>> ...
>
> I agree that having it format-specific makes the web more complex; but
> right now this is the case; for instance, fragment recombination works
> different for HTML and PDF, as far as I can tell.
> ...

...expanding on this -- tested with FF and Reader plugin; accessing 
a.pdf#foo, getting redirected to b.pdf#bar yields b.pdf#foo in the 
address bar (I don't believe it's the plugin's fault).

Best regards, Julian