- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 11:23:55 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: Paul Leach <paulle@microsoft.com>
- Cc: koen@win.tue.nl, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Paul Leach: >[Koen Holtman:] >> My proposal is to add no extra mechanism, and to rely on >>schemes that embed the referrer in the URI like this: >> >> http://www.blah.com/index?from=site1 >> >>By having the above URI point to a CGI script which returns a 302 >>redirect to the real home page http://www.blah.com/ , this scheme can >>be made to act in a cache-friendly way, especially if the 302 can be >>cached by proxies which report hits. > >If the 302 is cached, then the referrer info will be lost. Unless you >mean that the cache reports hits on cached 302 responses? Yes, this is what I mean. >Paul Koen.
Received on Thursday, 11 July 1996 02:34:15 UTC