- From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 00:31:50 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Daniel DuBois <ddubois@rafiki.spyglass.com>
- Cc: www-talk@www0.cern.ch
On Wed, 11 Oct 1995, Daniel DuBois wrote: > Scenario: User requests a URL that points to an existant CGI script. CGI > script returns a "Location: localfile.html" header, indicating a > 'server-side' redirect, and this file doesn't exist. Let me use different terminology. C = client, S = server C: GET /script.cgi S: 302 Moved Temporarily Location: host://server/other-file.html C: GET /other-file.html S: 404 Not Found Whether this is done as two separate connections or one using keep-alive doesn't really matter, I don't think. BTW, any reason why Location *has* to be an absolute URL and not a relative one? That's always been a burden - Netscape and the Microsoft Explorer handle relative paths alright. > Is it proper to send a 404 Not Found message? I think so. The user agent interface should clearly show it was the request for the second resource, and not the first, which caused the problem. Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- brian@organic.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.[hyperreal,organic].com/
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