On 10/18/11 7:54 AM, Jonathan Rees wrote:
Can someone remind me why people are using 303 at all, as opposed to
hash URIs in the #_ or #it pattern?

I've been trying to make a compelling case for 303 over hash, without
much success.

What would be most valuable is war stories, especially ones that
answer questions that have been left unanswered in the previous thread
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2011Sep/0003.html and in
the writeup http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/awwsw/issue57/latest/#hash

Thanks
Jonathan



I think that had a lot to do with IE and the desire to boostrap Linked Data in a manner that worked across all browsers.

Links:

1. http://jamespreston.co.uk/Articles/RedirectingIE6ToUrlWithFragmentIdentifier.html -- here is a 2007 post about the problem

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