Re: Describing current practice for 301 and 302
Koen Holtman (koen@win.tue.nl)
Thu, 1 Feb 1996 14:26:40 +0100 (MET)
Paul Hoffman:
>[Koen Holtman:]
>>It is worth noting because most user agents in use now change the POST
>>to a GET. Thus, there is a discrepancy between current practice and
>>the 1.0 informational definition. It is important to warn about such
>>discrepancies in the 1.0 document.
>
>This sounds OK to me, if it is done by a fair number of well-intentioned
>(if not misguided) HTTP/1.0 clients.
It is indeed done by a fair number of clients. As a data point: all
three user agents on my Linux box do it this way (see my first message
for the user agent names and versions).
I trust that you will add the second version of my note to the 301 and
302 descriptions in the 1.0 draft.
>--Paul Hoffman
>--Internet Mail Consortium
Koen.