- From: Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name>
- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:53:10 -0500
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, yngve@opera.com
- cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Hi Julian, --On December 23, 2008 2:24:21 PM +0100 Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: >> >> The 301 and 302 sections of HTTPbis seems to make the implicit, or >> perhaps not clearly stated, assumption that the new request shall use >> the same method as the request triggering the response. > > Just for the record: this text hasn't been changes since RFC2616... The current "Note" for 301 is: Note: When automatically redirecting a POST request after receiving a 301 status code, some existing HTTP/1.0 user agents will erroneously change it into a GET request. The reality is that it is not just HTTP/1.0 user agents that do this now but also HTTP/1.1. I think we need to reflect this reality more clearly (e.g., just remove the text "HTTP/1.0"). BTW this behavior is encouraged not only by user agents but also HTTP client libraries that do it. e.g. check out the note in the Python documentation: <http://www.python.org/doc/2.5/lib/http-redirect-handler.html>. -- Cyrus Daboo
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