Re: Browser support for response 302 Found

Paul (Paul.Wain@brunel.ac.uk)
Wed, 13 Jul 1994 10:01:37 +0100 (BST)

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@ I'm trying to write a script that will search for information, and then
@ return a a specific HTML page on my server. It seems that sending back a
@ header along the lines of:
@
@ HTTP/1.0 302 Found
@ URI: /thefilename.html
@
@ should work, but the two browsers that I've tried (MacMosaic and MacWeb)
@ both seem not to support the 302 response. Is 302 a response that many
@ browsers understand? I would find it very useful for returns from searches,
@ that don't exactly fall in the semantics of 301.

The response that the NCSA clients (and Lynx for example) understand is:

HTTP/1.0 302 Found
Location: /thefilename.html

This isnt listed in the specification but is the one that actually
works. I understand however that the move is back to the URI: header but
this will take a while to work through. The current suggestion seems to
be to send say:

HTTP/1.0 302 Found
Location: /thefilename.html
URI: /thefilename.html

Hope that helps,

Paul

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