Re: web documentation

George Phillips (phillips@cs.ubc.ca)
Wed, 24 Aug 1994 01:28:40 +0200

Nat Torkington wrote:
>Case in point: the fact that redirection is done through the Location:
>header line, not the URI: header line. The `documentation' is little
>more than a wishlist.

To be fair, I think the implementors were at fault here. I recall
that URI: was in the documentation but Location: was used by accident.
Once that got into Mosaic and NCSA HTTPD, there was no stopping it.