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Re: HTTP redirect to HTTPS stops

From: Ray Satiro via curl-library <curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 17:54:38 -0400

On 3/21/2017 4:25 PM, Dave S wrote:
> I'm way back on 7.29.0, so this may be a stupid question, but ...
>
> doing a POST to a service we subscribe to, and using the HTTP: scheme,
> the server sends a 302 redirecting to the same URI with the scheme
> changed to HTTPS. The 302 frame also has connection: closed.
>
> The return code from curl_easy_perform()is 0, but no data is returned,
> and tcpdump doesn't show any additional interchange after the ack.
>
> Changing my URI string (in source) to use the HTTPS: scheme, the
> exchange completes normally, but should I have been able to
> troubleshoot this without using tcpdump? Is a redirect to change
> scheme not automatically followed?

Redirects are not enabled by default. Do you have CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION
[1] enabled? Try with this URL:
http://httpbin.org/redirect-to?url=https://httpbin.org/get

[1]: https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION.html

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Received on 2017-03-21