On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:17:10 +0200, Tim Berners-Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
It is also, by the way, very useful to be able to get at the 301 and 302
status details, particularly when many URIs redirect to the same thing,
which might already have been fetched.
As indicated in the specification a future version will likely provide the
ability to toggle whether or not to follow redirects.
There is also a problem with relative URIs in the destination document.
They should be parsed relative to the redirected URI (for a 302 Moved at
, not the original URI, but the software knows nothing about the
redirection. This must apply also to other redirections.
I'm not sure I understand how this would affect XMLHttpRequest.
--
Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
<http://www.opera.com/>
