ISSUE-57

HttpRedirections-57

The use of HTTP Redirection

State:

OPEN

Product:

Raised by:

Stuart Williams

Opened on:

2007-08-22

Description:

At their meeting in 16th July 2007 [1] the TAG resolved to create a new issue, HttpRedirections-57 as a response to a community request [2] that we give further consideration to the use of the HTTP 303 status codes *and* other possible mechanisms of obtaining a description of a resource (typically a non-information resource) where the referenced resource is not capable of providing representations of itself.

Particular concerns are the cachability (or otherwise) of HTTP redirection responses (see email from Roy Fielding [3] indicating presense of a bug in the specs); UI confusion where redirection leds to changes in browser address-bar content and questions of the practical bookmarkability of a reference in the presence of a redirections.

Stuart Williams
For W3C TAG
--
[1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2007/07/16-minutes#item06
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2007Jul/0034
[3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2007Jul/0035

Related Actions Items:

• ACTION-6 on Rhys Lewis to Revise Dereferencing HTTP URIs finding in response to F2F discussion - due 2007-07-16, closed
• ACTION-9 on Stuart Williams to Create new TAG issue called "HTTP Redirections" per minutes of 16/7/07 - due 2007-08-20, closed
• ACTION-43 on Tim Berners-Lee to Find the paper that he annotated on the plane (and transcribe comments on "Cool URIs for the Semantic Web"). - due 2007-09-17, closed
• ACTION-46 on Norman Walsh to review Cool URIs for the Semantic Web - due 2007-10-11, closed
• ACTION-47 on Tim Berners-Lee to Review the 14 Sep draft of the Cool URIs for the SemWeb document on behalf of the TAG and bring the comments back to the TAG - due 2007-09-24, closed
• ACTION-52 on Norman Walsh to Relay comments as constructed today to the SemWeb EO IG editors of "Cool URIs..." - due 2007-09-26, closed
• ACTION-53 on Rhys Lewis to Update the current version of the Dereferencing URIs draft to show that we will not formally publish it. - due 2007-09-26, closed
• ACTION-64 on Stuart Williams to to contact editors of Cool URIs to determine when/how to carry our interaction forward. . . - due 2007-10-18, closed
• ACTION-74 on Stuart Williams to Explore TAG liason role to Subgroup to handle semantics of HTTP etc - due 2007-11-12, closed
• ACTION-95 on Dan Connolly to Ask SWEO working group for one week extension for review of their document - due 2008-01-24, closed
• ACTION-96 on Norman Walsh to Review latest draft with respect in particular to his earlier comments - due 2008-01-24, closed
• ACTION-101 on Dan Connolly to , Tim to produce Visio diagram to send to Leo - due 2008-02-21, closed
• ACTION-116 on Tim Berners-Lee to Align the tabulator internal vocabulary with the vocabulary in the rules http://esw.w3.org/topic/AwwswDboothsRules, getting changes to either as needed. - due 2008-09-06, open
• ACTION-117 on Tim Berners-Lee to Convey to the authors of the SWEO group the TAG's resolution - due 2008-03-06, closed
• ACTION-122 on Jonathan Rees to Call for interest in www-tag (among other places) in link-header-or-something-like-it - due 2008-03-06, closed
• ACTION-137 on Henry S. Thompson to Henry to find out what Jonathan would like Henry to do with respect to this document and do it. - due 2008-04-24, closed
• ACTION-153 on Dan Connolly to Report problem with base URI design in draft-nottingham-http-link-header - due 2008-05-27, open
• ACTION-154 on Jonathan Rees to Reply publicly to Phil with respect to our decision on Link: - due 2008-05-27, closed

Related emails:

1. Re: Uniform access (from jar@creativecommons.org on 2008-06-13)
2. RE: Uniform access (from skw@hp.com on 2008-06-13)
3. RE: Uniform access to ... (from dbooth@hp.com on 2008-05-09)
4. PROPFIND adressability, was: TAG Minutes 8 May 2008 (Issue-57) (from julian.reschke@gmx.de on 2008-05-08)
5. Uniform access to ... (from jar@creativecommons.org on 2008-05-08)
6. TAG Telcon agenda fro 8th May 2008: httpredirections-57; tagSoupIntegration-54; passwordsInThClear-52; webApplicationState-60 (from skw@hp.com on 2008-05-07)
7. TAG Telcon Agenda for 17th April 2008: httpRedirections-57; tagSoupIntegration-54; UrnsAndRegistries-50 (from skw@hp.com on 2008-04-16)
8. Re: Uniform access to descriptions (from jar@creativecommons.org on 2008-04-03)
9. TAG Telcon: Draft minutes for 20th March 2008 available for review. (from skw@hp.com on 2008-03-26)
10. TAG Weekly Telcon Agenda: 20th March 2008 (from skw@hp.com on 2008-03-19)
11. TAG Telcon Agenda: 13th March 2008: webApplicationState-60; tagSoupIntegration-54; UrnsAndRegistries-50; httpRedirections-57 (from skw@hp.com on 2008-03-12)
12. First draft of Wednesday morning minutes for TAG Vancouver F2F - 27 Feb. 2008 (from noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com on 2008-02-29)
13. RE: TAG Telcon agenda for 21st February 2008: httpRedirection-57; abbreviatedURIs-56; passwordInTheClear-52; namespaceDocument-8 (from dorchard@bea.com on 2008-02-20)
14. TAG Telcon agenda for 21st February 2008: httpRedirection-57; abbreviatedURIs-56; passwordInTheClear-52; namespaceDocument-8 (from skw@hp.com on 2008-02-20)
15. RE: Draft minutes for TAG telcon of 2008-02-14 (from Misha.Wolf@reuters.com on 2008-02-18)
16. Draft minutes for TAG telcon of 2008-02-14 (from ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson) on 2008-02-14)
17. TAG Agenda(s): 14th February 2008 (Telcon); 26-28th Feb 2008 (F2F - Initial Draft) (from skw@hp.com on 2008-02-13)
18. Re: [httpRedirections-57] Resource-Decription Header: a possible proposal to consider. (from patrick.stickler@nokia.com on 2008-02-12)
19. RE: [httpRedirections-57] Resource-Decription Header: a possible proposal to consider. (from dbooth@hp.com on 2008-02-09)
20. RE: [httpRedirections-57] Resource-Decription Header: a possible proposal to consider. (from skw@hp.com on 2008-02-08)
21. RE: [httpRedirections-57] Resource-Decription Header: a possible proposal to consider. (from dbooth@hp.com on 2008-02-08)
22. Re: [httpRedirections-57] Resource-Decription Header: a possible proposal to consider. (from richard@cyganiak.de on 2008-02-07)
23. Re: [httpRedirections-57] Resource-Decription Header: a possible proposal to consider. (from GK@ninebynine.org on 2008-02-06)
24. Re: [httpRedirections-57] Resource-Decription Header: a possible proposal to consider. (from jar@creativecommons.org on 2008-02-06)
25. RE: [httpRedirections-57] Resource-Decription Header: a possible proposal to consider. (from skw@hp.com on 2008-02-06)
26. Re: [httpRedirections-57] Resource-Decription Header: a possible proposal to consider. (from richard@cyganiak.de on 2008-02-06)
27. [httpRedirections-57] Resource-Decription Header: a possible proposal to consider. (from skw@hp.com on 2008-02-06)
28. RE: TAG Telcon Agenda for 24th January 2008: TAG Election; httpRedirections-57 (from skw@hp.com on 2008-01-24)
29. Ashok cannot join this weeks call (was FW: TAG Telcon Agenda for 24th January 2008: TAG Election; httpRedirections-57) (from raman@google.com on 2008-01-23)
30. Ashok cannot join this weeks call (was FW: TAG Telcon Agenda for 24th January 2008: TAG Election; httpRedirections-57) (from skw@hp.com on 2008-01-23)
31. TAG Telcon Agenda for 24th January 2008: TAG Election; httpRedirections-57 (from skw@hp.com on 2008-01-23)
32. TAG Telcon Agenda: 17th Jan 2008: whenToUseGet-7; httpRedirections-57; Overdue Action Item Review; Scheduling (from skw@hp.com on 2008-01-16)
33. new draft of 'Cool URIs for the Semantic Web' ISSUE-57 HttpRedirections-57 (from connolly@w3.org on 2008-01-11)
34. TAG telcon Minutes for 13th Dec 2007 (from ndw@nwalsh.com on 2007-12-13)
35. RE: TAG telcon Agenda for 13th Dec 2007: Rich Web Clients; httpredirections-57;Reviews; ping attribute; (from dorchard@bea.com on 2007-12-13)
36. TAG telcon Agenda for 13th Dec 2007: Rich Web Clients; httpredirections-57;Reviews; ping attribute; (from skw@hp.com on 2007-12-12)
37. TAG Telcon Agenda 6th Dec 2007: xmlFunctions-34; namespaceDocument-8; httpRedirections-57; Rich Web Clients (from skw@hp.com on 2007-12-06)
38. Regrets for Nov 15th (from rhys@volantis.com on 2007-11-14)
39. TAG Telcon agenda 15th Nov 2007: abbreviatedURI-56, binaryXML-30, passwordsInTheClear-52, httpRedirections-57 (from skw@hp.com on 2007-11-13)
40. RE: Updated Agenda for Friday 9th November 2007 TAG@TPAC F2F (from orchard@pacificspirit.com on 2007-11-08)
41. FW: Updated Agenda for Friday 9th November 2007 TAG@TPAC F2F (from orchard@pacificspirit.com on 2007-11-08)
42. Updated Agenda for Friday 9th November 2007 TAG@TPAC F2F (from skw@hp.com on 2007-11-08)
43. TAG Telcon Agenda for 1st November 2007. (from skw@hp.com on 2007-11-01)
44. TAG TPAC Agenda 5-9th Nov 2007 (from skw@hp.com on 2007-11-01)
45. RE: TAG Tecon Agenda: 25th October 2007: abbreviatedURI-56; XMLVersioning-41 (XHTHML Modularisation); IRIEverywhere-27;httpRedirections-57 (from dorchard@bea.com on 2007-10-24)
46. TAG Tecon Agenda: 25th October 2007: abbreviatedURI-56; XMLVersioning-41 (XHTHML Modularisation); IRIEverywhere-27;httpRedirections-57 (from skw@hp.com on 2007-10-23)
47. TAG Telcon Agenda: 18th Oct 2007: IETF/W3C mtg; tagSoupIntegration-54; IRIEverywhere-27; UrnsAndRegistries; httpRedirections-57; Nov F2F (from skw@hp.com on 2007-10-17)
48. Re: Draft minutes from TAG telcon of 2007-10-11 available (httpRedirections-57, namespaceDocument-8) (from connolly@w3.org on 2007-10-12)
49. Re: Triggering 303's (from mikael@nilsson.name on 2007-10-11)
50. Re: Triggering 303's (from edavies@nildram.co.uk on 2007-10-11)
51. TAG Telcon Agenda: 13th Oct 2007: httpRedirections-57, namespaceDocument-8, Mobile Ajax Workshop, XMLVersioning-41 (from skw@hp.com on 2007-10-10)
52. TAG meeting 17-19 Sep in Southampton: minutes/summary (from connolly@w3.org on 2007-10-04)
53. TAG Telcon Agenda for 4th October 2007: binaryXML-30; XMLVersioning-41; httpRedirections-57 (from skw@hp.com on 2007-10-04)
54. RE: TAG telcon Agenda for 27th September 2007: [TechPlenary; binaryXML-28; XMLVersioning-41] (from dorchard@bea.com on 2007-09-26)
55. TAG telcon Agenda for 27th September 2007: [TechPlenary; binaryXML-28; XMLVersioning-41] (from skw@hp.com on 2007-09-26)
56. Minutes from 19th Sept (from rhys@volantis.com on 2007-09-20)
57. RE: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection (from rhys@volantis.com on 2007-09-13)
58. Re: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection (from fielding@gbiv.com on 2007-09-13)
59. Re: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection (from edavies@nildram.co.uk on 2007-09-12)
60. RE: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection (from rhys@volantis.com on 2007-09-12)
61. Re: Draft Agenda for TAG F2F 17-19th September 2007 at University of Southampton (from noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com on 2007-09-04)
62. RE: Draft Agenda for TAG F2F 17-19th September 2007 at University of Southampton (from dbooth@hp.com on 2007-09-04)
63. Draft Agenda for TAG F2F 17-19th September 2007 at University of Southampton (from skw@hp.com on 2007-09-04)
64. Draft Minutes for TAG call on 30th Aug 2007 (from skw@hp.com on 2007-09-04)
65. Re: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection (from skw@hp.com on 2007-09-03)
66. Re: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection (from alanruttenberg@gmail.com on 2007-09-01)
67. Re: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection (from phayes@ihmc.us on 2007-08-31)
68. Re: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection (from timbl@w3.org on 2007-08-31)
69. Re: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection (from edavies@nildram.co.uk on 2007-08-31)
70. Re: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection (from richard@cyganiak.de on 2007-08-31)
71. Re: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection (from phayes@ihmc.us on 2007-08-30)
72. Re: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection (from edavies@nildram.co.uk on 2007-08-30)
73. Re: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection (from richard@cyganiak.de on 2007-08-30)
74. RE: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection (from phayes@ihmc.us on 2007-08-30)
75. Re: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection (from wangxiao@musc.edu on 2007-08-30)
76. RE: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection (from dbooth@hp.com on 2007-08-30)
77. Re: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection (from richard@cyganiak.de on 2007-08-29)
78. Re: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection (from richard@cyganiak.de on 2007-08-29)
79. Re: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection (from wangxiao@musc.edu on 2007-08-29)
80. RE: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection (from rhys@volantis.com on 2007-08-29)
81. Re: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection (from richard@cyganiak.de on 2007-08-29)
82. TAG Telcon Agenda for Thursday 30th August 2007 (from skw@hp.com on 2007-08-29)
83. RE: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection (from dbooth@hp.com on 2007-08-28)
84. Re: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection (from timbl@w3.org on 2007-08-27)
85. Re: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection (from wangxiao@musc.edu on 2007-08-27)
86. Re: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection (from edavies@nildram.co.uk on 2007-08-27)
87. Re: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection (from wangxiao@musc.edu on 2007-08-27)
88. Re: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection (from edavies@nildram.co.uk on 2007-08-27)
89. Re: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection (from alanruttenberg@gmail.com on 2007-08-24)
90. ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2007-08-22)

Related notes:

Display change log.