Re: web documentation

wmperry@monolith.interserv.net.spry.com
Wed, 24 Aug 94 07:36 PDT


George Phillips writes:
> Nat Torkington wrote:
> >Case in point: the fact that redirection is done through the Location:
> >header line, not the URI: header line. The `documentation' is little
> >more than a wishlist.
>
> To be fair, I think the implementors were at fault here. I recall
> that URI: was in the documentation but Location: was used by accident.
> Once that got into Mosaic and NCSA HTTPD, there was no stopping it.

And this is the type of thing that should never be allowed to happen
again.

-Bill P.