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[Handle-info] HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily

Hi:

I just had a question about the handle server HTTP proxy interface and the
Status-Line it returns.

If I try to get a handle through hdl.handle.net (or dx.doi.org) I get a
Status-Code '302' with the Reason-Phrase 'Moved Temporarily'. (See listing
at end.)

As far as I can see this Reason-Phrase is wrong. These are the historical
Status-Lines:

    * RFC 1945 - May 96 (HTTP 1.0) - Replaced:

      HTTP 1.0 302 Moved Temporarily

    * RFC 2068 - Jan 97 (HTTP 1.1) - Replaced:

      HTTP 1.1 302 Moved Temporarily

    * RFC 2616 - Jun 99 (HTTP 1.1):

      HTTP 1.1 302 Found

The handle server seems to be using the obsolete RFC 2068 which was
superseded over 10 years ago by RFC 2616.

I don't know if this is the correct source:

% grep 302 *
HdlHttpRequestHandler.java:    out.write("HTTP/1.1 302 Moved
Temporarily\n");

While the "client is not required to examine or display the Reason-Phrase"
(see [1]) it's not helpful to use an obsolete message.

Should (or could) this be fixed, especially since status codes have a
burgeoning role to play within Linked Data implementations?

Cheers,

Tony

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-6.1



% curl -D dump_headers.txt 'http://hdl.handle.net/10.1000/1'

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Handle Redirect</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY><A 
HREF="http://www.doi.org/index.html";>http://www.doi.org/index.html</A></BODY
></HTML>% 
% cat dump_headers.txt
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: http://www.doi.org/index.html
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:36:50 GMT
Server: Apache Coyote/1.0
Connection: close





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