OPTIONS and redirects (was: Re: Review of 22 Jan editor's draft)

> Thomas Roessler wrote:
>> - Why does the specification follow redirects upon OPTIONS?  If I
>>   read RFC 2616 correctly, then redirects for HTTP methods other
>>   than GET and HEAD shouldn't happen without user intervention.

Euh. This is actually an acknowledged bug in HTTP and part of the HTTP  
errata:

   http://skrb.org/ietf/http_errata.html#saferedirect

So we're good. I was already wondering why redirects on a safe method  
would be prohibited.


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Anne van Kesteren
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Received on Wednesday, 30 January 2008 21:58:28 UTC