Re: [Bug-wget] Segmentation fault with current development version of wget

[Gijs van Tulder]

Hi Darshit,

Darshit Shah wrote:
> Unless we explicitly check for opt.method = POST, this will cause a lot
> of issues. Since the macro is being called on every redirect, even
> HEAD/PUT/OPTIONS headers will get suspended to give way to GET. That is
> not the behaviour we want.

Ah, I see it's more complicated. If I understand RFC 2616 correctly 
(section 10.3), suspending a PUT request in response to a redirect is 
incorrect. But so is changing a POST request to a GET in response to 
anything but a 303. But that's expected (and the current behaviour of Wget):

  Note: When automatically redirecting a POST request after
  receiving a 301 status code, some existing HTTP/1.0 user agents
  will erroneously change it into a GET request.

I give up.

Regards,

Gijs