- From: Dave Kristol <dmk@allegra.att.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 96 09:35:31 EDT
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Suppose a search service moves from MachineA to MachineB. MachineA redirects the requests. Should MachineA affix the query string to the Location header? That is, if MachineA receives URL /search?query should it return a header Location: http://MachineB/search or Location: http://MachineB/search?query ? The specification gives no guidance. Empirically, user agents just go to wherever the Location header says to go. So if the query string is omitted, the search doesn't happen at MachineB, because the user agent doesn't concatenate the query string. (And it probably shouldn't, in truth.) My server will append the query string on redirects that arise from the server's configuration. (CGIs can return whatever.) What do others do? Dave
Received on Wednesday, 21 August 1996 06:40:28 UTC