Re: Describing current practice for 301 and 302

>>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