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Re: [jetty-dev] Redirect during POST processing
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Hi,
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Oliver Wulff <owulff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I was implementing the federation authenticator for jetty where I followed
> the example of the FormAuthenticator. I wrote a testcase with HttpClient and
> discovered that the redirect is not processed after posting
> username/password.
>
> The http specs says:
>
> // http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt
> // If the 301 status code is received in response to a request
> other
> // than GET or HEAD, the user agent MUST NOT automatically
> redirect the
> // request unless it can be confirmed by the user, since this
> might
> // change the conditions under which the request was issued.
>
> As this is not very nice, couldn't we just restore the saved original
> request without redirecting to it?
I think this is handled correctly in Jetty 9's HTTP client.
Check it out: http://webtide.intalio.com/2012/11/the-new-jetty-9-http-client/
What Jetty version are you using ?
Simon
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