From 8b7fff3311fd0caaf9e385bafedeb13f6ac2e161 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 10:41:10 +0100 Subject: location.d: the method change is from POST to GET only Not from generic non-GET to GET. Reported-by: Andrius Merkys Ref: #4859 Closes #4861 --- docs/cmdline-opts/location.d | 16 +++++++++------- docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION.3 | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 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. diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION.3 index 760854297..346cb9262 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION.3 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * -.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2019, Daniel Stenberg, , et al. +.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2020, Daniel Stenberg, , et al. .\" * .\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which .\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ are also disabled. When following a Location:, the 3xx response code that redirected it also dictates which request method it will use in the subsequent request: For 301, -302 and 303 responses libcurl will switch method to GET unless +302 and 303 responses libcurl will switch method from POST to GET unless \fICURLOPT_POSTREDIR(3)\fP instructs libcurl otherwise. All other 3xx codes will make libcurl send the same method again. -- cgit v1.2.1