Bug 46183

Summary: XHR rewrites non-POST methods upon 301/302 redirects
Product: WebKit Reporter: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke>
Component: Page LoadingAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: RESOLVED CONFIGURATION CHANGED    
Severity: Normal CC: annevk, ap, beidson, mnot
Priority: P2    
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
URL: http://www.mnot.net/javascript/xmlhttprequest/

Description Julian Reschke 2010-09-21 06:26:23 PDT
The test cases at http://www.mnot.net/javascript/xmlhttprequest/ show that XHR,
when following a 301/302 redirect, changes the method to GET.

According to RFC 2616, Sections 10.3.2 and 10.3.3
(http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2616.html#rfc.section.10.3), this is a
bug.

That being said, it's understood that rewriting *POST* is required for
compatibility with existing content. However, this does not seem to be the case
for other methods, as IE restricts the conformance violation to POST and
apparently gets away with it.

Please consider tightening the implementation.
Comment 1 Anne van Kesteren 2023-03-27 05:51:49 PDT
The test is no longer present, but I'm pretty sure this got resolved.