Re: LWP::Simple and redirects


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by arhuman (Vicar)

on Feb 26, 2002 at 08:05 UTC ( [id://147504]=note: print w/replies, xml )

Need Help??

Are you GETting the page or POSTing.
If you use POST your problem may come from strict RFC compliance.
From memory :

RFC : If you get a 30x on a POST you shouldn't follow the redirection
BUT some (most) browsers follow the redirection in such case but GET the redirected page...

Try to play with redirect_ok() ...

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•Re: Re: LWP::Simple and redirects by merlyn (Sage) on Feb 26, 2002 at 08:47 UTC
LWP::Simple can't do POST, so that can't be it. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]
Re: LWP::Simple and redirects by gregorovius (Friar) on Feb 26, 2002 at 16:33 UTC
Yes. I have written a subclass of LWP::UserAgent that replicates Netscape's behavior (ie. it will follow POST redirects but it will turn them into GETs before doing so). A lot of web applications rely on this non-standard behavior in browsers, making it a de-facto standard, so I think it would be a good idea to integrate such a class to LWP. I have just posted the code for it here By the way, overriding redirect_ok() to make UserAgent follow POST redirects is not enough, because redirects won't be converted into GETs, as browsers do. More on the subject at Redirect after POST behavior in LWP::UserAgent differs from Netscape's.	[reply]

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