Posted by Michael Fesser on 11/11/06 18:55

..oO(Jerry Stuckle)

>And there isn't a browser currently made which doesn't understand the
>relative URI here.

Browsers are not the only user agents. It's impossible to test them all,
so you can't be sure that all of them will handle a relative redirect
with a query string correctly. Some of them even show a warning (Lynx
for example).

>Agreed the RFC indicates we need to use an absolute URI. And he should
>be using one.
>
>But that isn't his problem.

It could be, depending on the used combination of server and browser.
Unlikely, but not impossible.

Micha

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