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25.1; restclient no longer sends auth header upon redirect

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From: Alain Picard <alain <at> gocatch.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
Cc: 24490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24490: 25.1; restclient no longer sends auth header upon redirect
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 10:01:50 +1000

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Well, curl gives you back the 303 (See Other) with
the Location header, unless you add -L (follow redirection)
in which case it reposts any original header (including Authorization) to
the new location.  i.e. "it just works".

What would be nice for restclient is a separate keystroke
which either does or does not follow the redirection; sometimes
you want to debug the initial hop.  But the default should be
to do what it does now, which is to follow; i.e. "act like a browser".

Hope this helps.

  Alain

On 21 September 2016 at 18:15, Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de> wrote:

> On Sep 21 2016, Alain Picard <alain <at> gocatch.com> wrote:
>
> > Problem: I am using restclient.el, and hitting a server which
> > issues a redirect, and I receive a 400 Forbidden response because
> > the redirected call does not receive the authentication header
> > (I can see this from the log of my server).
>
> How does curl or wget handle this?
>
> Andreas.
>
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