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Re: OT: Content-Location

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 14:53:30 +0200 (MET DST)

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Troy Engel wrote:

> So, I thought I'd fire up the HTTP spec, and it appears there's a header
> "Content-Location:" you can use to specifify the entity body. Of course,
> I used curl to debug the stream (:-)) and my code spits out the header as
> intended, but it doesn't seem to work how I thought it should.
>
> I'm thinking this header directive is supposed to work like a BASE REF
> does inside an HTML file; has anyone a different notion of how it works?
> It seems like it's pretty much ignored by a browser....

Bigtime web-hacker me doesn't even know how a "BASE REF" works. :-)

Besides, experience tells that just because it is in the HTTP RFC doesn't
mean the browsers have bothered to implement it.

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Received on 2000-08-01