I-D ACTION:draft-cohen-http-305-306-responses-00.txt

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       Title     : HTTP/1.1 305 and 306 Response Codes                     
       Author(s) : J. Cohen
       Filename  : draft-cohen-http-305-306-responses-00.txt
       Pages     : 8
       Date      : 06/16/1997

The HTTP/1.1 RFC specifies a response code '305 Use Proxy' which is 
intended to cause a client to retry the request using a specified proxy 
server.  This functionality is important, but underspecified in the current
spec.  The spec does not specify for how long or which URLs the redirect 
applies to, or how proxies can deal with or generate similar responses.  
This draft proposes a specification for both the 305 response and a new 
response, "306 Switch Proxy".                                              

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