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Re: Proposal: Removal of CURLPROTO_GOPHER from default redir_protocols

From: Linos Giannopoulos via curl-library <curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2019 17:44:25 +0300

On 7/5/19 1:46 PM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Jul 2019, Linos Giannopoulos via curl-library wrote:
>
>> Therefore, I would propose to remove CURLPROTO_GOPHER from the
>> default value of CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS
>
>> P.S: The same holds for other protocols such as CURLPROTO_DICT
>
> I approve.
>
> But how about instead discussing what protocols we should keep
> allowing by default? Is anyone ever using redirects (and expecting
> them to work) to anything but HTTP, HTTPS and FTP ?
>

I totally agree. This would stir towards more sane defaults for everyone
that will frankly never use such redirects.
Users will still be able to (explicitly) opt-in for other schemes anyway.

I'll prepare a PR for this and let everyone comment there, in case there
are objections.

Regards,
Linos

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