- From: David W. Morris <dwm@xpasc.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 18:16:14 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Lou Montulli <montulli@netscape.com>
- Cc: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>, Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Lou Montulli wrote: > > The 307 proposal works. Lets do it. > > > > I'm definately coming late to this discussion, but I have some strong > thoughtsto offer. > > 99.2% of the browsers in use today including all versions of netscape and IE > reissue POST redirects with a GET. It would be incredibly fool hardy to > try and change this behaviour now. It is far easier to swap the meaning of > 303 and 301/302 than it is to fix every CGI in the world as well as every old > browser in the world. I doubt that any commercial vendor is willing to > release a product that will break a large number of sites simply to claim > compliance with this spec. > > How is this issue going to get resolved? This tread died out almost a month > ago yet there is no solution yet. The current situation is unworkable. I thought we had reached concensus that 302 would be redefined to current practice that 301 and 303 were correctly defined AND that a new code (307) would mean what 302 currently says. But I don't recall anyone declaring concensus or providing actual proposed wording changes. Dave Morris
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