I'm trying to test a webapp, and this week, my focus is on trying to replicate search results. The architecture is fairly common: post a form to a URL that starts the process, and redirects to a standard page to render the results.
The method of handling that redirection is anything but standard. Rather than sending a redirect header, or even a redirect <meta> tag, it sends this document instead:
Um, yeah. Not exactly something WWW::Mechanize will follow.
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No. This is the standard for doing redirects, in the real world. Or so it seems. Some people should go back to McDonalds, where they can't do the world as much harm.
Re:anything but standard
ziggy on 2005-06-02T15:46:15
Then I guess we should be thankful for what we've achieve over the years: the death of server-side imagemaps and the near total annihilation of the dreaded <blink> tag. Pity spacer gifs and table-based layouts aren't on that list yet...
