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Re: Fragments in "Location" field

From: Rodent of Unusual Size <Ken.Coar@golux.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 12:59:49 -0400
Message-ID: <37B2FD85.BD6CF398@Golux.Com>
To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>
CC: http-wg@hplb.hpl.hp.com
X-Mailing-List: <http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com> archive/latest/510
Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> 
> >but 2616 says:
> >
> >> Location       = "Location" ":" absoluteURI
> >
> >Does this mean that "Location" values cannot include fragments?
> 
> Yes.  Oops.  draft-bos-http-redirect-00.txt seems to assume a fragment
> is allowed in redirects.  The HTTP syntax should be
> 
>    Location       = "Location" ":" absoluteURI [ "#" fragment ]

Does this mean that we (in the CGI work) can assume that fragments
are legal in our overload definition of Location?
-- 
#ken    P-)}

Ken Coar                    <http://Web.Golux.Com/coar/>
Apache Software Foundation  <http://www.apache.org/>
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