clarify a bit on the follow-redirect logic and when curl switches from POST

to GET on redirect
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Daniel Stenberg 2007-04-22 08:05:40 +00:00
parent 02267eba4c
commit 56a5c49ac0

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@ -704,6 +704,11 @@ able to intercept the user+password. See also \fI--location-trusted\fP on how
to change this. You can limit the amount of redirects to follow by using the
\fI--max-redirs\fP option.
When curl follows a redirect and the request is not a plain GET (for example
POST or PUT), it will do the following request with a GET if the HTTP response
was 301, 302, or 303. If the response code was any other 3xx code, curl will
re-send the following request using the same unmodified method.
If this option is used twice, the second will again disable location following.
.IP "--location-trusted"
(HTTP/HTTPS) Like \fI-L/--location\fP, but will allow sending the name +