[thelist] What is the Best Practice for Single Page Redirects?

Aredridel aredridel at nbtsc.org
Fri Jul 11 08:55:07 CDT 2003


> Are there, in fact, so-called "Web" clients that choke on something as 
> simple as a 301 status code redirect?

Sure are.  Older versions of several browsers have nasty side-effects
when redirecting a POST -- mostly because the spec was vague until a few
addenda were added.

Some browsers will post to the new URL as well, some will POST to the
first, then GET the second.

Ari




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