From kde-core-devel  Sat Mar 18 00:20:52 2000
From: Graham TerMarsch <gtermars () home ! com>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 00:20:52 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: www.granroth.org == KWord doc?
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Navindra Umanee wrote:
> Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> > Nah. kio_http just needs to ignore the mimetype (well, pretty much any
> > data it receives) when it gets a Location header (esp in conjunction with
> > a 302 Moved response).
> 
> Sounds true enough, but the server's response still differs depending
> on what you put in the User-Agent field.
> 
> Try for example sending this:
[.....snip.....]

True, the server does respond differently depending on what User-Agent
field you provide.  As much as I hate seeing sites that do this sort of
browser-detection inside of the Webserver that then feed you customized
content because its a direct violation of the HTTP spec, there are tons
of them out there.  And, their server should be sending a "Content-type"
for redirection messages either as its completely unneeded.

Think its going to be a case of having to facilitate some fudginess
around the HTTP spec in order to deal with servers (or server-side apps)
that don't adhere to the spec themselves.  I'd vote for "If you see a
'Location' redirection header that you could safely ignore any
content-type or document body that you receive".

-- 
Graham TerMarsch

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