Fw: HTTP redirect

"ghhou" <[email protected]> Fri, 28 Nov 2003 09:20:46 +0800
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.mobile.kannel.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Rene Kluwen,

In HTTP1.0, "Content-base" is base URI. But HTTP1.1 doesn't support this
header.

Can 'content-location' in the http response be used as base URL?  Rfc2616
says "The value of Content-Location also defines the base URI for the
entity.".


Best Regards,
Guanghua Hou
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rene Kluwen" <[email protected]>
To: "ghhou" <[email protected]>; "Stipe Tolj" <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 10:39 PM
Subject: RE: HTTP redirect


> 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]
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Wapme Systems AG
>
>
>