Re: NEW ISSUE: Drop Content-Location [#154]

Works for me.

On 14/10/2009, at 9:02 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:

> Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> Wasn't there also some aspect whereby a negotiated resource would  
>> make the links relative to the C-L URL, thereby messing things up?
>> ...
>
> Ah, that part.
>
> So the issue is: the C-L *does* set the base URI, it may break  
> relative links when original URI and CL-URI use different paths  
> (well, unless the format allows setting the base URI in-line as  
> well, for instance in HTML using the <base> element).
>
> So how about changing:
>
> "Remove base URI setting semantics for Content-Location due to poor  
> implementation support."
>
> to
>
> "Remove base URI setting semantics for Content-Location due to poor  
> implementation support, which was caused by too many broken servers  
> emitting bogus Content-Location headers, and also the potentially  
> undesirable effect of potentially breaking relative links in content- 
> negotiated resources."
>
> ?
>
> BR, Julian


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Received on Wednesday, 14 October 2009 10:49:50 UTC