Re: relative URLs in redirects

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 3:44 PM, msoulier <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I return an HttpRedirect() with a relative URL in it, I notice that
> Django fully qualifies the redirect with a hostname and scheme.
>
> ie.
>
> Location /foo/bar/
>
> goes to
>
> Location https:myserver.mysite.com/foo/bar/
>
> Is there a reason to fully qualify like this? I've found relative URLs much
> more portable in the past, and they work through proxies, make no
> assumptions about SSL on or off, etc.

The Location header must always be a fully qualified URI, according to
every single version of the HTTP RFC from RFC 1945 onwards.

Cheers

Tom

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