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iriscouch / browser-request

Browser library compatible with Node.js request package
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Why isn't followRedirect / followRedirects supported? #37

Open tp opened 9 years ago

tp commented 9 years ago

It seems to me, that requests made with browser-requests never follow redirects, but rather return the 30x response.

I just found the source for the error, that it's not supported: https://github.com/iriscouch/browser-request/blob/d99a386fc9f8109555cd92b7f3287cc5d816aa24/index.js#L57

Could you please document / mention the reason why it's not supported?

(And for those wanting redirect support I suppose we have to handle the 30x response ourselves, right?)

yegodz commented 9 years ago

I think it is the other way.. XMLHttpRequest, which is the underlying library in the browser does not let you intercept redirects, so browser-request cannot support the followRedirect option which the standard request library does