- From: Jasper Bryant-Greene <jasper@album.co.nz>
- Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 11:02:00 +1300
On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 20:25 +1000, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > It could be defined in reverse, where the ping attribute (probably given > a more suitable name, but I'll use ping for now) could be advisory > information about the final destination and the href attribute defines > the ping destination, such that following the href attribute would > perform a redirect, but WA1 UAs could use the URI in the ping attribute > to notify the user of the final destination (such as displaying it in > the status bar). Or the UA could just do a HEAD request for the URI in the /href/ attribute and display the contents of the Location: header if the response status is 3xx. We don't need a new attribute for this. -- Jasper Bryant-Greene General Manager Album Limited e: jasper at album.co.nz w: http://www.album.co.nz/ p: 0800 4 ALBUM (0800 425 286) or +64 21 232 3303 a: PO Box 579, Christchurch 8015, New Zealand
Received on Saturday, 22 October 2005 15:02:00 UTC