RE: 301/302
David W. Morris (dwm@xpasc.com)
Tue, 2 Sep 1997 21:09:51 -0700 (PDT)
On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Klaus Weide wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Yaron Goland wrote:
>
> > The 307 solution does not work because older scripts running on new
> > servers still send out 302 expecting a redirect to GET. We will break
> > all those scripts. Breaking those scripts is not an acceptable solution.
> > The 302/303 swap, on the other hand, does not break the huge base of
> > deployed scripts. There really is no other realistic option but to swap
> > 302/303.
> > Yaron
>
> You must have misunderstood the "307 solution". There is nothing in
> it that prevents browsers from continuing to do with 302 whatever they
> do now. Therefore there is nothing to break existing scripts.
>
> Please see <http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/hypermail/1997q3/0402.html>.
Yes, the point of the 307 solution was specifically to NOT change any
current practice. No chance of breaking any use of 303 by swapping 302
and 303 either.
Dave Morris