- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:20:14 +0100
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- CC: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On 10.03.2010 17:15, Jonas Sicking wrote: > ... > Leaving things undefined seems like a very bad idea. If it really > doesn't matter today what UAs do, then my experience is that sometime > in the future sites will start depending on it one way or another. > > That said. I don't see that firefox treats relative and absolute URIs > any differently. The code at [1], which handles redirects, seems to > forward the fragment ID from the original uri if the new uri doesn't > have a fragment, and otherwise use the fragment ID of the new > location. No distinction is made based on if the location header > contained a relative or absolute URI. > > Do you have a testcase where we can test the behavior? > ... I thought I did (mentioned in my previous mail); but I just decided to double-check them, given your confidence (the tests were written in a hurry during a conference). Turns out they relied on Apache/mod_asis to treat Location headers as opaque data, which apparently is not the case. So the test cases at <http://greenbytes.de/tech/tc2231/redirects.html> work only for those four tests where the redirect target is a full URI. In the other cases, mod_asis apparently resolves the path internally, and never sends the redirect. Summary: please ignore this for now; I will have to produce test cases that actually test what I wanted to test. Best regards, Julian
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