Re: 302 Redirect & POST

From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 00:03:50 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199506202203.AAA07204@wswiop05.win.tue.nl> To: S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk Cc: www-talk@www10.w3.org · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Wednesday, 27 October 2010 18:14:17 GMT

S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk:
>I am POSTing form contents (at a CERN 3.0 server) and receiving a
>redirect.  Once the user has confirmed that it is OK to redirect,
>should I send the POST command and the form data to the new URL,
>or issue a GET?  I had presumed that I send the POST.

Sending a POST is the correct thing to do.  The (March 8 1995) draft
is not completely clear about this, but this seems to be the current
consensus.

Koen.