Re: ACTION-462: URI Fragments and HTTP redirects

On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Yves Lafon wrote:

> My position on this is that:
> * Fragments in redirects have a real value and are already used.
> * Fragment recombination can be hard and impossible in the general case
> * We need to define a good story for applying a fragment to a redirected URI
>  with a different fragment.

And the proposal is:
<< When retrieving a resource A leads to a redirect to an URI B containing 
a fragment, any existing fragment on A MUST be dropped in favor of B's 
Fragment >>

Original URI: A#Frag1
-> GET A
-> 3xx Location: B#frag2
Final URI -> B#frag2

Cheers,

-- 
Baroula que barouleras, au tiéu toujou t'entourneras.

         ~~Yves

Received on Friday, 8 October 2010 13:51:58 UTC