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[svn] Removed statement that redirect in response to POST is "technically

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disallowed", which I cannot find in rfc2616 nor in rfc1945.  Even if that
were technically the case, the widespreadedness of such responses would make
the prohibition irrelevant.
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2005-05-30 Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>
* wget.texi (HTTP Options): Removed statement that redirect in
response to POST is "technically disallowed", which I cannot find
in rfc2616 nor in rfc1945. Even if that were technically the
case, the widespreadedness of such responses would make the
prohibition irrelevant.
2005-05-14 Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>
* wget.texi (Overview): Document --[no-]proxy as primarily being

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@ -1311,12 +1311,12 @@ use chunked unless it knows it's talking to an HTTP/1.1 server. And it
can't know that until it receives a response, which in turn requires the
request to have been completed -- a chicken-and-egg problem.
Note: if Wget is redirected after the POST request is completed, it will
not send the POST data to the redirected URL. This is because URLs that
process POST often respond with a redirection to a regular page
(although that's technically disallowed), which does not desire or
accept POST. It is not yet clear that this behavior is optimal; if it
doesn't work out, it will be changed.
Note: if Wget is redirected after the POST request is completed, it
will not send the POST data to the redirected URL. This is because
URLs that process POST often respond with a redirection to a regular
page, which does not desire or accept POST. It is not completely
clear that this behavior is optimal; if it doesn't work out, it might
be changed in the future.
This example shows how to log to a server using POST and then proceed to
download the desired pages, presumably only accessible to authorized