Simon Willison wrote: > > > On 18 Nov 2005, at 15:26, Robert Wittams wrote: > >> Hm, maybe when DEBUG is on, CommonMiddleware should put up an >> interstitial page to tell the developer what is happening? It does seem >> to bite a lot of people. > > > Alternatively, we could just have CommonMiddleware throw a deliberate > server error if a POST is made to a IRL that doesn't have a trailing > slash. That should make things abundantly clear :) POSTing to a URL > that CommonMiddleware wants to redirect is most definitely a bug in an > application, and should be treated as such. The redirect plain > shouldn't happen. > > Cheers, > > Simon >
Yes, I guess that would work - the number of times a successful non-GET request can be made to these URLs must be pretty small.
