[plt-scheme] Problem with Post-Redirect-Get in FireFox

From: Anton van Straaten (anton at appsolutions.com)
Date: Thu Aug 9 10:54:02 EDT 2007

Jens Axel Søgaard wrote:
> So what actually happens if the web-server receives a HEAD request?

Using lwp-request (a Perl tool often included in Linux distributions), 
executing "HEAD http://localhost/" against the PLT web server returns 
the following for me:

   200 Okay
   Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:39:36 GMT
   Server: PLT Scheme
   Content-Length: 880
   Content-Type: text/html
   Last-Modified: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:05:58 GMT
   Client-Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:39:36 GMT
   Client-Peer: 127.0.0.1:80
   Client-Response-Num: 1

 > Maybe my problem
 > is due to the fact that I am redirecting to the same page that the
 > POST stemmed from?

This sounds plausible.  It'd be easy to test, by redirecting to a 
different page instead.

Anton



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