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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2020-01-28 10:41:10 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2020-01-28 12:58:33 +0100 |
| commit | 8b7fff3311fd0caaf9e385bafedeb13f6ac2e161 (patch) | |
| tree | 425dfcd26cbdf3acbdb435f7db5f5f3e4f193903 /docs/cmdline-opts | |
| parent | d3dc0a07e9bd11afaac026802a9701f0796de780 (diff) | |
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
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/cmdline-opts')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/cmdline-opts/location.d | 16 |
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. |