- From: Brandon Long <blong@uiuc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 10:56:47 -0600 (CST)
- To: drtr1@cus.cam.ac.uk (David Robinson)
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org
Last time, David Robinson uttered the following other thing: > > What should a server do if a script returns > > Location: /an/otherfile > Myheader: value > > should it > a) ignore the Myheader, and simply act as if /an/otherfile was requested > b) return /an/otherfile but add the Myheader header? > > If b), should the headers added by the script take precedence over headers > appropriate for the new document? > > Apache and NCSA <= 1.3 do (a). I have heard a rumour that NCSA 1.5 does (b). > I receiveda request from a user who wants Apache to do (b) so that he > can add netscape 'Window-Target:' headers to the servers respose. 1.5 does (a) as well, at least from my test. Looking at the code, this should indeed be the case. > I'd appreciate any input so that I can get a concensus to settle this point > for the CGI specification. Would a mechanism to allow the user to specify extra headers for urls work better? It seems kinda heavyweight to launch a CGI script just to add a header. Brandon -- Brandon Long "I think, therefore, I am confused." -- RAW HTTPd/SDG/NCSA "Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most." ECE/UIUC blong@uiuc.edu http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/blong N9WUC Don't worry, these aren't even my views.
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