[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 110127] [GTK][EFL] HEAD requests changed to GET after 303 redirection

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110127





--- Comment #6 from Dan Winship <danw at gnome.org>  2013-02-21 09:18:38 PST ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> What requests should be changed to GET? Is this described in an RFC? I think this bit of code needs a comment, at least, with a reference to how we know this is the right decision.

It's documented in the HTTP spec (RFC 2616), but in general, what web browsers do doesn't fully match that, and in specific, 2616 gets this case wrong (what it says is actually not even what the authors meant; it's been fixed in httpbis).

Anyway, we know it's the right decision because it makes the tests pass. :-}

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