trishah has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello,

I'm trying to log into a site using WWW::Mechanize. When a user enters their log in details they are redirected to another page. At this point in the headers it says : 

"HTTP/1.0 302 Found".

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I was wondering, how does WWW::Mechanize cope with redirects ?

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Best Regards,
Trish.

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Re: WWW::Mechanize and 302 redirect
by PodMaster (Abbot) on May 14, 2004 at 10:09 UTC
    WWW::Mechanize deals with redirects exactly as described in the manual (yes the manual) and source. I hope that clears things up.

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Re: WWW::Mechanize and 302 redirect
by saintmike (Vicar) on May 15, 2004 at 00:33 UTC
    WWW::Mechanize goes through great lengths to behave exactly like the majority of browsers regarding redirects.

    As explained in the RFC, it is incorrect for a browser to allow a POST request to be redirected by a 302 server response. Most browsers do it, though, and that's why WWW::Mechanize explicitely allows it via 

        push( @{$self->requests_redirectable}, 'POST' );

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    although the underlying LWP::UserAgent strictly complies with the standard.
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