I'm writing unit tests for my app and come across this problem:
if I try to access the page which has @auth.requires_login()
I get error 303 - i.e. redirect to the page with login/password form.
While this works visually for browsers, it is actually wrong for testing AND
for search engines. Status codes are important for robots and here status is
set incorrectly (should be 401).
So why we not set this to 401 and make redirect with other means
(javascript/meta tags)? We know that pages that are larger than certain size
are displayed ok in IE so this should not be a problem.
Here is sample page with redirect:
"""<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="0" />
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=%(nexturl)s/" />
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
window.location='%(nexturl)s';
// --></script>
</head>
<body />
</html>
"""%{'nexturl':URL(r=request,c='auth',f='login')}
If this is a good idea - I'll write a patch.
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Sincerely yours
Alexey Nezhdanov
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