[erlang-bugs] http client relative redirects

[Ingela Anderton Andin]

FYI!  (As I was not yet a member of erlang-bugs when I wrote the answer)

Hi!

It is handled if you sepecify the HTTP-option {relaxed, true} in 
http:request/4.
Although it is not currently documented, mainly because we have not 
really decided on all
things that may be relaxed. But I will add it to the documentation. By 
default
the client will conform to the spec.

Regards Ingela -OTP team


> 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 could be a good idea to try and handle this.