Re: #160: Redirects and non-GET methods

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)?


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Received on Monday, 18 July 2011 10:54:50 UTC