Redirect (303) ignores accept header in favor of content-type if body defined

[Marc-Elian Bégin]

Hi,

When using the REST POST/REDIRECT/GET pattern, with httplib2, the GET
part of the pattern fails to specify the right request media-type, if
a body is provided in the POST request.

For example:-,

response = h.request('<some resource url>', 'POST', '',
headers={'Accept':'application/json', 'content-type':'application/x-
www-form-urlencoded'})

in this case, since the body is an empty string (same for None), the
response is in the right media-type, 'application/json'.

However, if I request:
_,response = h.request('<some resource url>', 'POST', 'foo=bar',
headers={'Accept':'application/json', 'content-type':'application/x-
www-form-urlencoded'})

the response contains a body in html format, which is consistent with
the servers approximation of 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' as
its supported media-types.

I think that when specified, the 'accept' header should trump any
'content-type' specified in the POST request.

Any light on this would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Meb

[Joe Gregorio]

Sorry, as far as I can tell, what you are describing is the behavior
of the server and doesn't
have anything to do with httplib2.

-joe

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[Marc-Elian Bégin]

Yap... you're completely right... I was under the impression that the
header sent by httplib2 was wrong... but I was mistaking.

Forget about this.

Sorry,

Meb

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