Re: Any interest in automatic link-updating?
Vance Huntley (vance@webgenesis.com)
Mon, 15 Jul 1996 09:06:12 -0400
At 16:31 -0400 96.07.13, James Marshall wrote:
>Is anyone interested in a simple mod to HTTP to allow more efficient link
>updating when a 301 response occurs? I once designed an addition to HTTP
>to allow updating of referrers the first time any user follows an old
>link, rather than waiting on (at best?) a periodic link-check performed by
>the server.
>
>I designed it as an exercise; now that I have it, and we're in
>1.2-issues-phase, I thought I'd ask the WG if there's any interest. Is
>there enough long-term efficiency gain to warrant a change to the
>protocol? Implementors of link-editing HTTP servers, does this appeal to
>you at all?
I agree that updating broken links is a useful feature in a web server. But=
why does this need to be addressed in the standard? Is this really=
anything more than a useful utility for webmasters ( as opposed to a=
client-server communication issue which must be addressed in the standard )=
?
Apologies in advance if I'm just being dense :-)
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