HTTP method not consistent when redirected

[GoogleCodeExporter]

** What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Create a first web page that will redirect (using a 301 HTTP status
code) to a second web page
2. Have the second page display the (escaped) POST data
3. Then use Poster to POST some data to the redirection page

** What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I would expect the data POSTed to the first page to be redirected to the
second page and then the POSTed data display in the Poster output window.

What happens is the data is POSTed to the first page, it returns a 301
error code and a Location: HTTP header pointing to the new page. The second
page is then accessed using the GET method and no HTTP message data.

** What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Poster 1.7.1/Firefox 3.0.3 on Ubuntu/Linux

** Please provide any additional information below:
The rfc2616 documentation on how to handle 301 redirections confirms the
expected outcome above: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html

Original issue reported on code.google.com by andib...@gmail.com on 27 Oct 2008 at 7:22

[GoogleCodeExporter]

It currently doesn't do anything more than what a single request does.  I could 
add this as an option.

Original comment by alexmilo...@gmail.com on 3 Aug 2009 at 2:28

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

[GoogleCodeExporter]

It's a Firefox bug; see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238144 and
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343028

Original comment by scholesm...@gmail.com on 30 Oct 2009 at 12:23

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Firefox bug so I can't do much about it.

Original comment by a...@milowski.com on 11 Oct 2011 at 8:10

• Changed state: WontFix