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

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#13909: Redirect does not return a HTTP body
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 Reporter:  hakre         |       Owner:                
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  General       |     Version:  3.0           
 Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:  has-patch     
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Changes (by hakre):

  * keywords:  needs-patch => has-patch


Comment:

 To summarize since this is now some says older:

  * HTTP specifies a hypertext fragment should be output on redirects
 (Status Codes 3xx) - WordPress does not conform with that currently.
  * Doing so globally would break the Plugin activation functionality
 because it operates with overwriting headers in case of not crashing.
  * WP_Redirect does handle even non-redirect stati. That's violating HTTP
 specs, valid redirect status codes have to be in the 300-399 range.

 So WP_Redirect must be put in context when used to redirect. Attached
 patch reflects that by introducing a new parameter to control hypertext
 output, a filter to let plugins control that as well as a introducing a
 new pluggable function and a new filter to offer control for the redirect
 hypertext design.

 Additionally the function has been improved to prevent wrong-filtered
 status codes to accidently used as those are not releated to redirects
 (non 3xx codes handling).

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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/13909#comment:12>
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