- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 11:44:52 -0500
- To: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Cc: Paul Hoffman <paulh@imc.org>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Koen Holtman writes: > Paul Hoffman: > >[Koen Holtman:] > >>It is worth noting because most user agents in use now change the POST > >>to a GET. Thus, there is a discrepancy between current practice and > >>the 1.0 informational definition. It is important to warn about such > >>discrepancies in the 1.0 document. The reason for this mess is that there was some confusion about the 303 Method return code by which you could actually change the method to perform on the object. I think this note is OK if we add the word "erroneously" to this change of method! + Note: When automatically redirecting a POST request after + receiving a 301 status code, some existing user agents will + change it into a GET request. -- Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, <frystyk@w3.org> World-Wide Web Consortium, MIT/LCS NE43-356 545 Technology Square, Cambridge MA 02139, USA
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