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		nemetroid on Feb 17, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: HTTP 308 Incompetence Expected So basically the entire premise of the article, that > existing practice today is that 301, 303, and 307 are used correctly pretty much everywhere is flat out wrong. I guess that's a nicer and more probable resolution than "standards people suck!".

hmsimha on Feb 17, 2014 [–]

From the rest of the article, I can only assume it means 'correctly' in the sense of the reality arrived at by both user agents and servers after years of standards-flouting, which is now 'correct' if unspecified behavior.

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