Re: new redirection codes

Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> Sun, 11 May 2025 19:11:36 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel
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On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 12:43:06AM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> lynx only supports the old 301/302 redirection codes,
> not the new 307/308 ones whose semantics are more useful;
> unsure (I’ve not tested it) whether 303 is supported right.
> 
> 301/302 may change the request method from POST to GET
> (IIRC lynx asks interactively which is good), whereas
> 308/307 (in this order) are the same but require the client
> to resend exactly the same request to the redirection target.
> 
> There’s more explanation and a short summary of the other
> codes in both answers (together) of
> <https://stackoverflow.com/q/42136829/2171120> for reference.
> 
> Please add support for 307/308 to the next lynx (basically
> same as the existing redirect sans the interactive question).

I don't see a patch.

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