238144 - The XMLHttpRequest object doesn't save the request type if there's an http redirection

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: XML, defect)

Description

[javier derderian]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

I'm trying to implement httpmail(the outlook->hotmail "protocol") in xul, and i
need to send a request to "http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp"
but the method isn't a get or a post, it's a 'PROPFIND'
the problem is that the first site redirects to some other site, and then the
object doesn't send the correct method, it send "get" instead of the one i told him

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. create an XMLHttpRequest object
2. tell it to open "http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp" with the
metod "propfind"


Actual Results:  
wait and it'll tell you 'incorrect request' or something like that, not the
object, the website
if you use some kind of network sniffer you'll see that th request method is
changed after the first redirect

Expected Results:  
the request method should be the same every time

Comment 1

[javier derderian]

i've just notted that it doen't even save the headers added with "setRequestHeader"

Comment 2

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Comment 3

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

I may be seeing this. Assumably you have to have (or create) a Hotmail account
to test. Then, when the auth dialog comes up, type in your email address and
password. After that point I see 302 redirect and the next command Mozilla
issues is GET. I get login failed error after that. I haven't tried if it would
work if I made that be PROPFIND.

What do other clients do - IE, Safari and Opera now all support XMLHttpRequest
to some level?

Comment 4

[Paul Odeon]

I can confirm this bug. The W3C states that the XHR object should handle redirects "transparently". The current behaviour in Firefox (2.0.0.3) is to ignore whatever headers were sent in the initial request and use the default firefox request headers to retrieve the url that the XHR object has been redirected to. This is not "transparent" in my book. 

IE7 appears to handle this correctly.

To replicate this bug simply try creating an XHR object and get a url that issues a redirect. Using a tool like Firebug should show clearly the difference in the request headers between the original request and the request for the redirected url.

Comment 5

[Thomas Wisniewski]

This bug no longer reproduces. I just double-checked that Firefox forwards the method and headers during XHR redirects.