Re: Pretty URLs

Daniel W. Connolly (connolly@hal.com)
Wed, 18 May 1994 11:38:27 -0500


In message <199405181622.LAA16266@austin.BSDI.COM>, Tony Sanders writes:
>Marc Salomon writes:
>> to save the URL. We would like to create the condition (without hackin=
g the
>> server and client) where we can put the direct link URL to the page in =
the =

>> hotlist instead of saving the map coordinate URL.
>You can use the 300 series URL redirect return codes for the ISMAP return=
..

Doesn't this incur the cost of another HTTP transaction?

What about the URI: header in the response? (see the http spec_ for
details) Is this honored by Mosaic? If so, you could use that.
If not, I guess the above suggestion is the only thing that works for
now.

Dan

.. _spec http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Protocols/HTTP/HTTP2.html