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Re: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION and request body

From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2025 10:03:53 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 26 May 2025, Jicea via curl-library wrote:

> I'm trying to get information on how libcurl behaves with
> CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION and request body. Methods chosen for redirection are
> heavily documented, but I want to know how the request body is affected
> during redirection: is the initial body transmitted "as it", does libcurl
> send an empty body in the following request etc...

Fair question with I think a fairly simple answer. I made it as a PR:

https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/17454

   "When libcurl switches method to GET, it then uses that method without
   sending any request body."

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Received on 2025-05-26