HEAD is converted to a GET when following a 302 redirect
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- haskell
- Domain
- networking
Research direction
Start by locating the redirect-handling path for HTTP 302 responses and how it selects the follow-up method for HEAD requests. Reproduce the behavior with a HEAD request that receives a 302, then verify that the redirect preserves HEAD rather than issuing GET.
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Description
I'm using HEAD to check the size of a very large url before downloading it, so it's surprising that when there's a 302 redirect, it's followed using GET.
- Dominant language
- Haskell
- Stars
- 186
- Forks
- 59
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
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