#21587: Make generic RedirectView default to permanent=False
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Reporter: wraus@… | Owner: nobody
Type: Uncategorized | Status: new
Component: Generic views | Version: 1.6
Severity: Normal | Keywords: redirect, view
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Easy pickings: 1 | UI/UX: 0
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Having been bitten by this, and seeing some other reports of it, it seems
very unintuitive that RedirectView defaults to permanent.
Permanent redirects are cached on the browser, so the ramifications of
accidentally making a permanent redirect away from an URL you are
currently using or intend to use in the future are fairly serious. On the
flip side, using a non-permanent redirect when you meant to use a
permanent one has little real impact outside of taking slightly more time
to redirect.
Having RedirectView default the permanent argument to False wouldn't
actually break existing sites, since it will still redirect, so there's no
serious backwards compatibility issues.
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