- From: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 07:41:29 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Matthew Smith <matt@kbc.net.au>
- Cc: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Matthew Smith wrote: > I have a situation where a number of documents were served from a > database and generated 'on-the-fly'. These documents were all accessed > from a single URI, with the query string selecting the document. Substituting path info for query string might be an option. > Would it be acceptable to send an HTTP 301 code from the programme to > redirect the user agent to new document location (the HTML file)? Yes of course. That's exactly the right way to do it. > I don't see how this could constitute an accessibility problem unless > the user agent were unable to process a 301, but then is every UA fully > aware of every HTTP code? I'm not aware of any UA that groks every HTTP return code correctly. But a browser that failed to follow a 301 would be too broken to use. -- Nick Kew
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