Re: LWP::Simple and redirects

[arhuman]

Are you GETting the page or POSTing.
If you use POST your problem may come from strict RFC compliance.
From memory :

• RFC : If you get a 30x on a POST you shouldn't follow the redirection
• BUT some (most) browsers follow the redirection in such case but GET the redirected page...

Try to play with redirect_ok() ...

"Only Bad Coders Code Badly In Perl" (OBC2BIP)

[merlyn]

LWP::Simple can't do POST, so that can't be it.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

[gregorovius]

Yes. I have written a subclass of LWP::UserAgent that replicates Netscape's behavior (ie. it will follow POST redirects but it will turn them into GETs before doing so). A lot of web applications rely on this non-standard behavior in browsers, making it a de-facto standard, so I think it would be a good idea to integrate such a class to LWP. I have just posted the code for it here

By the way, overriding redirect_ok() to make UserAgent follow POST redirects is not enough, because redirects won't be converted into GETs, as browsers do. More on the subject at Redirect after POST behavior in LWP::UserAgent differs from Netscape's.