879700 - XHR should allow not following redirects

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, enhancement)

Description

[Florian Lasinger]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130512193848

Steps to reproduce:

Send XHR to a URL that returns a 301 or 302 redirect.


Actual results:

Redirects are automatically followed, leaving me with the final fetched response as a result object.


Expected results:

I would expect a property "resolveRedirects: (true|false)" (default true) on the XMLHttpRequest to configure the particular request to not follow any redirects but just return the first HTTP response.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

There have been some proposals for this in the working group...  Jonas, do you know what the state of those is?

Comment 2

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

Anne is the editor and will have better answers here.

Comment 3

[Anne (:annevk)]

It's an open issue. See https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12607 and https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15417 and the links from there.

Comment 4

[Thomas Wisniewski]

Based on the discussions in comment 3, it was resolved that disallowing redirects was WONTFIX, but that the final responseURL should reflect the redirected URL. Firefox currently passes that test: http://w3c-test.org/XMLHttpRequest/responseurl.html

As such this bug should like be WONTFIX.

Comment 5

[Josh Matthews [:jdm]]

Thanks Thomas!