Re: Issue 160 (Redirects and non-GET methods)

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:08:21 +0200, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>  
wrote:
> On 22.09.2010 22:55, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> Because it is more consistent and will encourage people to use that what
>> actually works everywhere and for every method (if they really want that
>> behavior).
>
> Well, it's not consistent with non-browser clients, with XmlHTTPRequest  
> (ActiveX), or IE.

Non-browser clients do not change POST either so they do not count. And  
XMLHttpRequest in IE is indeed inconsistent in how it does this.


> Also, what about HEAD? Or OPTIONS?

The same. 301/302 are effectively equivalent to 303. Seems better than  
equivalent to 307 except for POST.


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Anne van Kesteren
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Received on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 11:08:16 UTC