[Web-SIG] Internal redirect using Location with absolute path and status of 200.

[Ian Bicking]

Ian Bicking wrote:
>> Does anyone think this would be nice extension for a WSGI adapter
>> written against current specification to implement even if not
>> necessarily portable?
> 
> Eh.

To add to this, I never found the CGI functionality useful.  Why would I 
do that and not a real redirect?  If there's links they'll be broken, 
because the client and the resource won't agree on what the real request 
URL was.  If the script/app is the consumer, the Location header stuff 
doesn't work -- you don't get back the response.  So it doesn't work for 
web service style internal requests.  If it's something like 
authentication, that doesn't work either -- you are giving a request 
path back, which anyone could access, and you haven't added any 
information to it to specifically permit access (unless there's 
something in the environment that makes the subrequest clear; I never 
looked closely enough, nor is it specified).


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