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

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, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2020, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, 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.