[8415] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: 302 Redirect & POST
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Koen Holtman)
Wed Jun 21 07:30:28 1995
From: koen@win.tue.nl (Koen Holtman)
To: S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 00:03:50 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: www-talk@www10.w3.org
In-Reply-To: <26812.9506191500@strachey.ecs.soton.ac.uk> from "S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk" at Jun 19, 95 04:00:50 pm
S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk:
>I am POSTing form contents (at a CERN 3.0 server) and receiving a
>redirect. Once the user has confirmed that it is OK to redirect,
>should I send the POST command and the form data to the new URL,
>or issue a GET? I had presumed that I send the POST.
Sending a POST is the correct thing to do. The (March 8 1995) draft
is not completely clear about this, but this seems to be the current
consensus.
Koen.
