summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2020-01-28 10:41:10 +0100
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2020-01-28 10:41:10 +0100
commit7929550cdd4bafcd7d5d662ec4062f38082428d6 (patch)
tree54dacb54ea522a11e7d06cde683ae52a14e2db72
parentd3dc0a07e9bd11afaac026802a9701f0796de780 (diff)
downloadcurl-7929550cdd4bafcd7d5d662ec4062f38082428d6.tar.gz
location.d: the method change is from POST to GET only
Not from generic non-GET to GET. Ref: #4859
-rw-r--r--docs/cmdline-opts/location.d16
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/location.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/location.d
index 7c70e6981..b5ba1f4fa 100644
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/location.d
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/location.d
@@ -13,11 +13,13 @@ intercept the user+password. See also --location-trusted on how to change
this. You can limit the amount of redirects to follow by using the
--max-redirs option.
-When curl follows a redirect and the request is not a plain GET (for example
-POST or PUT), it will do the following request with a GET if the HTTP response
-was 301, 302, or 303. If the response code was any other 3xx code, curl will
-re-send the following request using the same unmodified method.
+When curl follows a redirect and if the request is a POST, it will do the
+following request with a GET if the HTTP response was 301, 302, or 303. If the
+response code was any other 3xx code, curl will re-send the following request
+using the same unmodified method.
-You can tell curl to not change the non-GET request method to GET after a 30x
-response by using the dedicated options for that: --post301, --post302 and
---post303.
+You can tell curl to not change POST requests to GET after a 30x response by
+using the dedicated options for that: --post301, --post302 and --post303.
+
+The method set with --request overrides the method curl would otherwise select
+to use.