On 30/10/06, Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 12:28 +0100, Robin Vickery wrote:
> On 30/10/06, Ivo F.A.C. Fokkema <I.F.A.C.Fokkema@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 23:40:47 -0600, Richard Lynch wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, October 27, 2006 4:53 pm, Børge Holen wrote:
> > >> On Friday 27 October 2006 19:34, Richard Lynch wrote:
> > >>> And the header("Location: ...") requires a full URL.
> > >>
> > >> No it doesn't. but he's missing an ' at first glance
> > >
> > > Yes, it does:
> > > http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.30
> > >
> > > Note the use of 'absolute' within that section.
> >
> > Although I always use a full URL as well, doesn't absolute just mean
> > non-relative? As in:
> > Location: /Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.30
> > (absolute URI)
> >
> > Location: ./rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.30
> > (relative URI)
>
> If you need contextual information to make sense of the URI (such as
> the server name from a previous request) then it's not absolute.
>
> RFC 2396: Uniform Resource Identifiers
>
> "An absolute identifier refers to a resource independent of the
> context in which the identifier is used. In contrast, a relative
> identifier refers to a resource by describing the difference within a
> hierarchical namespace between the current context and an absolute
> identifier of the resource."
Please note you are quoting from an RFC with the following title:
Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax
Pay special attention to "Generic Syntax" in the title.
The RFC linked by Richard clearly indicates that for the Location
response-header that "the field value consists of a single absolute
URI". This currently has the final word for the Location response-header
and therefore is the standard.
What?
Pay special attention to what I wrote.
I wasn't disagreeing with Richard, or the RFC he quoted. The OP
expressed some confusion about what comprised an 'absolute URI' so I
quoted the section of the RFC that defined an 'absolute URI'.
There's no question that a Location header should contain an absolute
URI as its value.
-robin
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