[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #13909: Redirect does not return a HTTP body

Tue Jun 15 19:15:37 UTC 2010

#13909: Redirect does not return a HTTP body
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 Reporter:  hakre         |       Owner:           
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  3.1      
Component:  General       |     Version:           
 Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:  has-patch
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 When !WordPress redirects via the API ({{{wp_redirect}}}), a useragent
 which does not automatically redirect (e.g. configuration because of
 usability or security considerations), get's a blank page delivered (which
 is of no use for the user). This is because only HTTP headers are set for
 the redirect, but not a HTTP body. Normally Webservers and Webapplications
 deliver a body as well.

 '''Example: Redirect on the google.com domain'''

 Command: {{{curl -i http://google.com/}}}

 Output:
 {{{
 HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
 Location: http://www.google.com/
 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
 Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:11:12 GMT
 Expires: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:11:12 GMT
 Cache-Control: public, max-age=2592000
 Server: gws
 Content-Length: 219
 X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block

 <HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type"
 content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
 <TITLE>301 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
 <H1>301 Moved</H1>
 The document has moved
 <A HREF="http://www.google.com/">here</A>.
 </BODY></HTML>
 }}}

 Redirect of google.com to www.google.com; next to the headers a body is
 returned (some simple HTML containing the link to the redirected page).

 This method is often used as a fall-back for automatic methods — if the
 visitor's browser does not support the automatic redirect method, the
 visitor can still reach the target document by following the link.
 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_redirection#Manual_redirect URL
 redirection (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)]

 '''Example: Redirect on a wordpress domain'''

 This is against a trunk version wordpress setup. I made a setup with a
 domain www.webroot.loc and webroot.loc. The blog is w/o the www. so
 www.webroot.loc get's redirected to webroot.loc:

 Command: {{{curl -i http://www.webroot.loc/wordpress/}}}

 Output:
 {{{
 HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
 Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:12:38 GMT
 Server: Apache
 X-Pingback: http://webroot.loc/wordpress/xmlrpc.php
 Location: http://webroot.loc/wordpress/
 Transfer-Encoding: chunked
 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
 }}}

 There is no http body in the response.

 To increase the overall usability of wordpress a body should returned as
 well.

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