Re: 301/302
Koen Holtman (koen@win.tue.nl)
Mon, 8 Sep 1997 21:30:46 +0200 (MET DST)
John Franks:
>
>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.
Just to avoid any confusion: In my original message, I went on to
explain that an origin server *could* happily send 303 or 307 to a 1.0
client, at least when redirecting to a GET request. I think that most
of the time, the server can get away with not looking at the Via
header at all.
>John Franks Dept of Math. Northwestern University
> john@math.nwu.edu
Koen.