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#3932 closed bug (wontfix)
Opened January 21, 2009 04:19AM UTC
Closed February 11, 2009 04:38PM UTC
Last modified October 23, 2013 01:18PM UTC
If an AJAX POST request receives a 301 response, data is not re-POSTed to the new location
| Reported by: | Firehed | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | 1.3.2 |
| Component: | ajax | Version: | 1.3.1 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
I found this with help from Firebug, and get identical results in Safari as well:
If an AJAX request to a page that receives a "301 Moved Permanently" response, an empty GET request is made to the new location.
I think it's very unlikely that people will come across this, but if you miss a trailing slash on an address for example (when using nice mod_rewrite addresses), this comes up.
Sample:
jQuery.post("ajax", objectId: 'demo', function(ajaxResponse){alert(ajaxResponse);});
Firebug shows a POST request to http://mysite.com/admin/ajax (the page's html contains a <base href="http://mysite.com/admin/" /> tag in the head) with the correct payload.
Response: 301, Location: http://mysite.com/admin/ajax/
(note the trailing slash)
The 301 prompts a GET to the location specified in the above response. The GET has no payload. The expected behavior is that the original POST response would simply re-POST to the new location.
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Change History (3)
Changed February 03, 2009 03:05AM UTC by comment:1
Changed February 11, 2009 04:38PM UTC by comment:2
| milestone: | 1.3.1 → 1.3.2 |
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| resolution: | → wontfix |
| status: | new → closed |
| version: | 1.3 → 1.3.1 |
Yeah, I agree that this is probably something that we won't be able to handle explicitly.
Changed October 23, 2013 01:18PM UTC by comment:3
I'm so glad I've found this page!!!! Spent hours trying to understand that.
Thanks!
As I understand what happened, it doesn't sound like a bug. The
method did a POST to the requested URL and got an HTTP response of 301. The code that called can do whatever it wants with that response, including re-posting to the given location.