On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 00:09 -0400, Ryan Smith wrote:
> Ok, ill try to answer my own question. Yes, its against the the RFCs,
>
> http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html
>
> Note: RFC 1945 and RFC 2068 specify that the client is not allowed
> to change the method on the redirected request
>
> So I just overrode the isRedirect() method and returned True when a POST and
> a redirect were happening and everything works fine.
>
> -Ryan
>
Yep, custom RedirectStrategy implementations can relax pretty much any
restriction on redirect handling imposed by the HTTP spec.
Cheers
Oleg
>
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Ryan Smith
> <ryan.justin.sm...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am using HttpClient 4.1-alpha2 and I am coming across a web server that
> > takes a POST method request, but sends back a 302 temp redirect.
> >
> > After checking the DefaultRedirectStrategy code, line 83, I noticed that
> > POSTs wont redirect. (probably breaks an RFC?)
> >
> > switch (statusCode) {
> > case HttpStatus.SC_MOVED_TEMPORARILY:
> > return (method.equalsIgnoreCase(HttpGet.METHOD_NAME)
> > || method.equalsIgnoreCase(HttpHead.METHOD_NAME)) &&
> > locationHeader != null;
> >
> > So since Firefox, MSIE, etc take redirects from a POST and do a GET on the
> > redirected location uri, how would I go about doing that in HttpClient? I
> > figured I'd ask here before hacking & patching.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > -Ryan
> >
> >
> >
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