Re: 301/302
John Franks (john@math.nwu.edu)
Mon, 8 Sep 1997 14:08:06 -0500 (CDT)
On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Koen Holtman wrote:
> John Franks:
> >
> >I hope I am wrong, but we seem to have painted ourselves in a corner
> >here. On the one hand we have decided that the client's version
> >should not be communicated to the origin server when there are proxies
> >(all version information is hop-by-hop).
>
> [...], we have the Via header for this.
>
You are correct the Via header should provide end-to-end version
information to the origin server. The origin server can simply not
send 303 or 307 to end clients which support HTTP/1.0. I am glad
my concern was unfounded.
John Franks Dept of Math. Northwestern University
john@math.nwu.edu