[erlang-bugs] http client relative redirects

Thu Sep 6 05:03:27 CEST 2007

Hey maintainers,

(As you probably already know) the RFC does state that Location: headers
are supposed to be absolute

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.30

But IMHO I still think it would be a good idea to try and handle this.

-- p

On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Paul Mineiro wrote:

> Dear maintainers,
>
> Relative urls in redirects result in an unexpected (to me) error.
>
> -------
> pmineiro@REDACTED% erl                                                  ~
> Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.5.5 [source] [async-threads:0] [kernel-poll:false]
>
> Eshell V5.5.5  (abort with ^G)
> 1> http:request ("http://yexsely.spaces.live.com/").
>
> =INFO REPORT==== 3-Sep-2007::12:06:30 ===
> The inets application was not started. Has now been started as a temporary application.
> {error,no_scheme}
> -------
>
> The server is handing back a relative url in the location header:
>
> -------
> pmineiro@REDACTED% telnet yexsely.spaces.live.com 80
> Trying 207.46.123.236...
> Connected to yexsely.spaces.live.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: yexsely.spaces.live.com
>
> HTTP/1.1 302 Found
> Connection: close
> Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:05:28 GMT
> Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
> P3P:CP="BUS CUR CONo FIN IVDo ONL OUR PHY SAMo TELo"
> MSNSERVER: H: BY2SPCWEBA047 V: 1 D: 1/1/2000
> X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
> X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
> Location: /AccessDenied.aspx?space=yexsely
> Set-Cookie: wlru=http%3a%2f%2fyexsely.spaces.live.com%2fdefault.aspx; domain=spaces.live.com; path=/
> Cache-Control: private
> Content-Type: text/html
>
> <html><head><title>Object moved</title></head><body>
> <h2>Object moved to <a href="/AccessDenied.aspx?space=yexsely">here</a>.</h2>
> </body></html>
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> -------
>
> I'm not sure what the RFC says, but my browser does a redirect treating
> the ref as relative, i.e., to
> http://yexsely.spaces.live.com/AccessDenied.aspx?space=yexsely .
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- p
>

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