Re: ACTION-462: URI Fragments and HTTP redirects

Julian Reschke wrote:
> On 08.10.2010 15:51, Yves Lafon wrote:
>> 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
> 
> We probably should mention that this is what UAs actually *do*, and have 
> been doing for a long time 
> (<http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/43>).

whereas, to the best of my knowledge this isn't what RDF tooling and 
similar do if dereferencing http://example.org/A#frag1 then that's what 
you'll be looking for in the content returned.

unsure if that adds anything to the debate ;)

Cheers,

Nathan

Received on Friday, 8 October 2010 16:48:09 UTC