On 30/12/2011, at 9:54 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > On 2011-12-30 01:43, Mark Nottingham wrote: >> One other thing -- >> >> p2 already has: >> >>> For 3xx responses, the location SHOULD indicate the server's preferred URI for automatic redirection to the resource. >> >> There was equivalent text in 2616. So, I think the resolution here is actually pretty minor; we just need to add text to p2 7.3 that reflects this; e.g., >> >> """A Location header on a 3xx response indicates that a client MAY automatically redirect to the URI provided; see [ref to Location header].""" >> >> Comments? >> ... > > But that just repeats something the definition of 300 already says, right? > > "If the server has a preferred choice of representation, it SHOULD include the specific URI for that representation in the Location field; user agents MAY use the Location field value for automatic redirection." -- > <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-17.html#rfc.section.7.3.1.p.3> Right, but we want to make it clear that this applies to 3xx generically. -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/Received on Friday, 30 December 2011 14:56:24 UTC
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