Re: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION and request body

Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.curl.library
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On Mon, 26 May 2025, Jicea via curl-library wrote:

> I'm trying to get information on how libcurl behaves with 
> CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION and request body. Methods chosen for redirection are 
> heavily documented, but I want to know how the request body is affected 
> during redirection: is the initial body transmitted "as it", does libcurl 
> send an empty body in the following request etc...

Fair question with I think a fairly simple answer. I made it as a PR:

https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/17454

   "When libcurl switches method to GET, it then uses that method without
   sending any request body."

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