relative URLs in redirects

[msoulier]

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.

Thanks,

Mike

[Tom Evans]

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

[msoulier]

Damn. Missed that. Thanks.