[thelist] Location header question

[Roger Ly]

>   Any comments? I'd really like to see a formal explanation of what is
>recommended and what is not in the HTTP Location header. This has the
>makings of a good tip, as soon as I make sure I know what I'm talking
>about!

>From the RFC for HTTP 1.1 (ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2616.txt):

14.30 Location

...The field value consists of a single absolute URI.

The RFC seems to say that you must put in an absolute URI.  I would
assume that makes any attempts to handle a relative URI to be
non-standard, so depending on which web server you are using, you could
get different results.

Roger