Why? There's perfectly valid 300 Multiple Choices response, that is a
redirection if a `Location' is given, and equivalent to a successful
GET otherwise. To be precise (from RFC2068):
10.3.1 300 Multiple Choices
The requested resource corresponds to any one of a set of
representations, each with its own specific location, and agent-
driven negotiation information (section 12) is being provided so that
the user (or user agent) can select a preferred representation and
redirect its request to that location.
Unless it was a HEAD request, the response SHOULD include an entity
containing a list of resource characteristics and location(s) from
which the user or user agent can choose the one most appropriate. The
entity format is specified by the media type given in the Content-
Type header field. Depending upon the format and the capabilities of
the user agent, selection of the most appropriate choice may be
performed automatically. However, this specification does not define
any standard for such automatic selection.
If the server has a preferred choice of representation, it SHOULD
include the specific URL for that representation in the Location
field; user agents MAY use the Location field value for automatic
redirection. This response is cachable unless indicated otherwise.
> -spc (and what is the purpose for 304?)
You get 304 after an If-Modified-Since request, if the document has
not been modified. Precisely:
10.3.5 304 Not Modified
If the client has performed a conditional GET request and access is
allowed, but the document has not been modified, the server SHOULD
respond with this status code. The response MUST NOT contain a
message-body.
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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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