Tom Samplonius wrote:
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Matthew S. Ring wrote:
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conflicts with RFC 2616. Is this stringency really neccesary? Selfishly, it...
I think there is some confusion about RFC2616 and redirected POSTs. RFC2616 says that POSTs should not be redirected, and no one really does that. All current web browsers handle a redirect to a POST, but GETting the the new location. In effect, the POST is not really redirected at all, but the server is just sending you to a new location after receiving your POST.
I think httpclient should mimic web browser behaviour, as it is universal. However, it is not hard to do it yourself, but read the new location, and GET it. So it is not vital for httpclient to do this for you. And automatic following of redirects is not really complete in httpclient anyhow, so you should always be ready to follow redirects if necessary.
Tom
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