- From: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:16:36 -0700
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: > On 2011-07-18 17:00, Yves Lafon wrote: >> On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Mark Nottingham wrote: >>> On 18/07/2011, at 7:23 PM, Yves Lafon wrote: >>>>> ? Safari/533.21.1 - all 301, 302, 307 rewritten to GET; 303 methods >>>>> are preserved >>>>> ? Firefox/5.0.1 - all 301, 302 rewritten to GET; 303 and 307 methods >>>>> are preserved >>>>> ? Chrome/14.0.814.0 - all 301, 302 rewritten to GET; 303 and 307 >>>>> methods are preserved >>>>> ? Opera/11.50 - all 301, 302 rewritten to GET; 303 methods are >>>>> preserved; 307 tests crash the browser >>>>> ? MSIE/9.0 (latest) - all 301, 302 methods preserved except POST >>>>> (changed to GET); all 303, 307 methods are preserved >>>>> >>>>> So, many browsers rewrite many methods to GET on 301 and 302. >>>>> whereas most browsers preserve methods on 303 and 307*. >>>> >>>> Note that the results above are for the XHR-based test. >>>> I tried 307 for POST "natively" >>>> * For Opera/11.50 POST -> 307, popup to chose to redirect while >>>> preserving >>>> the method. >>>> * For Safari 5.0.5 (6533.21.1), POST redirected without a prompt to >>>> another POST on the new URI. >>>> * Firefox/5.0.1 redirect 307 preserving the method, and warn the user. >>> >>> >>> How are those different (besides not crashing Opera, of course)? >> >> Well, in XHR Safari rewrite all 307 methods to GET (from your report), >> not if done directly (POST -> 307 -> POST) > > As far as I recall, Safari has different code paths, and the bug only > applies to synchronous XHR (when does it get fixed? the bug report is almost > three years old...). Bug number? Adam >> In Opera, you report that the method is preserved on 303 (so POST -> 303 >> -> POST), while it is transformed in a GET "directly". > > ...but didn't you say: > > "For Opera/11.50 POST -> 307, popup to chose to redirect while preserving > the method." > > Typo? > > Best regards, Julian > > > >
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