Re: [XHR] setRequestHeader and redirects

On 2011-06-25 20:23, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 20:17:17 +0200, Christian Biesinger
> <cbiesinger@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well it's clearly not the same request. You'll get different cookie
>> headers, for example... HTTP doesn't really deal with an API to set
>> headers. It feels like the higher level API, in this case
>> XMLHttpRequest, needs to specify what the behaviour should be.
>
> So each specification that deals with custom headers of some kind (e.g.
> EventSource has Last-Event-ID and Cache-Control) needs to say what
> happens to them in the face of redirects?
>
> Is that the case Julian?

I can confirm that HTTP doesn't tell you the answer.

I'm not sure it' *supposed* to tell you.

Maybe the proper fix is to have APIs where following redirects is 
controller by the caller?

Best regards, Julian