[horde] full url

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Mon Mar 17 19:22:45 PST 2003


Quoting Chris Petersen <lists at forevermore.net>:

> what's the point of this if nothing is ever written as a full URL?
> Sounds like a waste of code if it's never used.

It is used to generate Location: headers, where it is required (many, MANY 
applications brutally break this spec - try them in lynx sometime), and a 
few other places where the full address is required (remote summaries, 
etc).

-chuck

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Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck at horde.org>
"... It is not more light we need, but more warmth! We die of cold, not of
darkness. It is not the night that kills, but the frost." - Miguel de 
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