bug#22744: 24.5; url-retrieve callback is not invoked when http response content is empty

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Shiyao Ma <i@introo.me> writes:

> I installed from the git head.
>
> For the callback status, it's:
> (:error (error http 405) :redirect https://bpaste.net/show/9f7b83e91ebc)
>
> For the callback buffer, it's:
> HTTP/1.1 405 METHOD NOT ALLOWED
> Server: nginx

[...]

> So from the url-debug output, the logic is doing wrong. On Line#30, it's doing
> a *redirect* with post, resulting an HTTP 405.

So that web site wants the redirect to be done with GET instead of POST?
I don't know what the standard says should happen here...

Nicolas, could you look into this?  The issue is that when POST-ing to
bpaste.net, it 302 redirects...

> BTW, possible to do nothing other than firing up the callback when receiving
> the HTTP 302 on Line#32 ?

No, the callbacks are fired after landing on the final URL after all the
redirects.

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