- From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:31:03 -0500
- To: public-awwsw@w3.org
- Cc: tabulator <tabulator@csail.mit.edu>
We have just written some more code for the tabulator extension, affecting how the browser deals with redirects. The question is what URI should be displayed in the data browser URI bar, bookmarked, etc. Our conclusion is: 1. The client follows any number of redirects (within reason) to (hopefully) eventually a 200 and parses the document with the 200. 2. The browser displays information about the thing originally asked for, so if there is a 303 redirect from A to B it will find information about <A> in <B>, and the URI displayed and bookmarked will be A, and information about A will be displayed. 3. In a series of many redirections, the URI displayed in the URI bar follows contiguous 301 (moved) redirections only. Example: A --301--> B URI displayed is B A --302--> B URI displayed is A A --303--> B URI displayed is A A --301--> B --303--> C URI displayed is B A --301--> B --301--> C URI displayed is C A --301--> B --301--> C --303--> D URI displayed is C A --301--> B --301--> C --303--> D --301--> E URI displayed is C A --302--> B --301--> C --303--> D URI displayed is A A --301--> B --303--> C URI displayed is B A --303--> B URI displayed is A The effect is to give the user generally the URI they were interested in or referred to, unless it is declared by the server to be inferior to the proposed new URI. Tim
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