[jetty-dev] Redirect during POST processing

[Oliver Wulff <owulff@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there

I was implementing the federation authenticator for jetty where I followed the example of the FormAuthenticator. I wrote a testcase with HttpClient and discovered that the redirect is not processed after posting username/password.

The http specs says:

//            http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt
//            If the 301 status code is received in response to a request other
//            than GET or HEAD, the user agent MUST NOT automatically redirect the
//            request unless it can be confirmed by the user, since this might
//            change the conditions under which the request was issued.

As this is not very nice, couldn't we just restore the saved original request without redirecting to it?

Thanks
Oli