- From: Dave Long <dave@navisoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 14:08:07 -0800
- To: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Cc: Paul Hoffman <paulh@imc.org>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
>>If so, why on earth would they do that? > >Historical reasons, I believe. A very old version of the HTTP >specification could be interpreted as requiring a change to GET on >redirection. It makes sense in the context of imagemap-like CGI's, which tend to return redirections to regular pages, not redirects to another CGI. Should we rely on servers to ignore queries for non-searchable resources? -Dave
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