RE: Which URI should be persistent when redirects are used?

> From: Dan Brickley
> 
> >>
> >> How about 303 redirects?
> [ . . . ]
> 
> Would it be wrong for B to be a(nother) URI for the resource? eg. an 
> LSID, URN, java:, phone: or other non-http URI?

Yes it would be wrong.  The HTTP spec RFC2616 spec says: "The new URI is
not a substitute reference for the originally requested resource."[1]

1. http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.3.4



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Received on Monday, 1 October 2007 19:21:18 UTC