Re: Redirections and port / http-https change

On Fri, 3 Oct 2025, Jicea via curl-library wrote:

> My questions are about port and HTTPS/HTTP
>
> - are the Authentication/Cookie headers filtered when ports change (even with the same hostname) ?
> - are the Authentication/Cookie headers filtered when going from https:// to http:// ?
>
> Contrary to the doc, in the code port / protocol seem to be taken into 
> account (unless "host" in the doc stands for protocol + host + port ?)

"host" in the doc (at least when it regards this) stands for protocol + host + 
port.

This should also be fairly easy to verify.

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