- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 10:13:25 +0200
- To: public-webapps@w3.org, "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:46:23 +0200, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > On 6/25/11 2:23 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> So each specification that deals with custom headers of some kind (e.g. >> EventSource has Last-Event-ID and Cache-Control) needs to say what >> happens to them in the face of redirects? > > On the face of it, yes. Especially because different redirect response > codes have different semantics (well, in theory), so some headers may > need to be preserved across some of them but not others. And without > knowing the meaning of the header, it's impossible to say when it should > be preserved across the redirect and when it only makes sense in the > context of the original request. I raised this with the HTTP WG: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2011AprJun/0489.html It seems they are going to do something about it: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2011AprJun/0490.html I guess we should evaluate again when that is done. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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