[uf-discuss] Rel-Canonical

[Ciaran McNulty]

Just catching up with this list..

It's interesting you should say that about Content-Location, I made a
similar comment in a blog post [1] and there seemed to be some
confusion over the exact semantics of the header.

As an aside, does anyone know where google/yahoo/MSN discuss this
stuff? Is it in a public setting, or is it all behind-doors talks?

-Ciaran McNulty

[1] http://tinyurl.com/daj7j8

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Toby A Inkster <mail at tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:
> Brian Suda wrote:
>
>> Google has started to use rel-canonical to specific the best URL for
>> page information.
>
> It is a shame they don't seem to have openly discussed this idea before
> implementing it. If they had, people may have pointed out that it more or
> less duplicates the semantics of the existing Content-Location header from
> HTTP 1.1. Content-Location is already a fairly commonly used header, and
> although HTTP headers can sometimes require a bit of voodoo to configure,
> <meta http-equiv> is available as a substitute.
>
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