RE: HTTP redirect

"Rene Kluwen" <[email protected]> Thu, 27 Nov 2003 15:39:01 +0100
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.mobile.kannel.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
BASE tags in HTML documents are rarely used.
Most HTML documents go without.

Rene Kluwen
Chimit

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
ghhou
Sent: donderdag 27 november 2003 4:43
To: Stipe Tolj; [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: HTTP redirect


Stipe,

The Base element in HTML specifies an absolute URI that acts as the base URI
for resolving relative URIs.
For example, given the following BASE declaration and A declaration:

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
    <HTML>
    <HEAD>
    <TITLE>Our Products</TITLE>
    <BASE href="http://www.aviary.com/products/intro.html">
    </HEAD>
    <BODY>
    <P>Have you seen our <A href="../cages/birds.gif">Bird Cages</A>?
    </BODY>
    </HTML>

    the relative URI "../cages/birds.gif" would resolve to:
    http://www.aviary.com/cages/birds.gif

I'm sure you may be clear about the problem in proxy redirection. If no base
element existing, problem will happen.

Best Regards,
Guanghua Hou
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stipe Tolj" <[email protected]>
To: "Rene Kluwen" <[email protected]>
Cc: "ghhou" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 8:20 AM
Subject: Re: HTTP redirect


> Rene Kluwen wrote:
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> > If you mean a relative URL in the Location: header.
> > Then this is something against HTTP specs. One should not use them.
> > Even though almost all browsers do prepend the original http-path if you
do
> > send them.
>
> nop, the point is different.
>
> Kannel wapbox does the Location following (hence redirection)
> transparently to the WAP user agent. Hence relative URLs within the
> WAP deck would result to address resources that are ment to be on a
> previously redirected URL. And there is where we "may" run into
> problems.
>
> Stipe
>
> mailto:[email protected]
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