Re: Question about LuaSocket : Always receive Http Error:Number 302

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

Aren't we totally off-topic now? (Sorry for the top-post.) 

> On May 27, 2010, at 3:26 PM, Romulo wrote:
> 
> >> According to the RFC anyway, POST should not be automatically redirected without interactive user confirmation.
> > 
> > According to [1], the 302 status code should not redirect a POST
> > without user confirmation, you should use 303 See Other to do that.
> 
> Right. In practice though, most user agents choose to ignore that part of the spec, as noted in the spec itself :)
> 
> "Note: RFC 1945 and RFC 2068 specify that the client is not allowed
> to change the method on the redirected request.  However, most
> existing user agent implementations treat 302 as if it were a 303
> response, performing a GET on the Location field-value regardless
> of the original request method. The status codes 303 and 307 have
> been added for servers that wish to make unambiguously clear which
> kind of reaction is expected of the client."
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post/Redirect/Get
> 
> Bit old, but still:
> 
> http://www.alanflavell.org.uk/www/post-redirect.html