- From: Eric Lawrence <ericlaw@exchange.microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:24:27 -0700
- To: Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
As you noted, Internet Explorer (and WinINET/WinHTTP) has never supported this status code. As implied in the RFC, there are potential security concerns for supporting this status code, and it's not clear that its practical usefulness outweighs its complexity. Eric Lawrence Program Manager Internet Explorer -----Original Message----- From: ietf-http-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:ietf-http-wg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Adrien de Croy Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:16 PM To: HTTP Working Group Subject: 305 Use Proxy deprecated? Hi All can't find any browser that supports this. * IE 6 silently fails (shows blank page, does not attempt connection to proxy). * FF 2 silently fails (shows blank page, does not attempt connection to proxy). * Opera displays message "The server tried to redirect Opera to the alternative proxy "http://xxxxxxxx". For security reasons this is no longer supported." So looks like the main browsers (haven't tried Safari) have de facto deprecated it. Is it an optional code to handle? RFC2616 is extremely sparse in its description of the status code. Adrien
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