Re: Redirection: "Location" or "Uri" ?
Rob McCool (robm@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Fri, 14 Jan 1994 05:04:15 -0600
/*
* Redirection: "Location" or "Uri" ? by Martijn Koster (m.koster@nexor.co.uk)
* written on Jan 6, 7:15pm.
*
* I was playing around with redirection today, and got conflicting info
* on how it is done: both draft-ietf-iiir-http-00.txt and
* http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Technical.html talk about
*
* Uri: <url> String CrLf
*
* but Mosaic for X and httpd seem to use
*
* Location: <url>
*
* Why are these contradictory? Which one is right?
*/
The PS document we based it on is from June 1993... I'm not sure when it was
changed or who changed it, but now that we have a huge installed user base I
think Location should be used.
--Rob