it redirects with a status code and location header, it just also sends a
body
the comments in the code explains why
https://cs.opensource.google/go/go/+/refs/tags/go1.24.0:src/net/http/server.go;l=2410
- sean
On Sun, Feb 23, 2025, 19:10 Vladislav (wennerryle) <wennerr...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I solved gophercises and on the second exercise I wrote this code:
>
> func mapHandler(
> provider func(string) (string, error),
> w http.ResponseWriter,
> r *http.Request) {
>
> longUrl, err := provider(r.URL.Path)
>
> if err != nil {
> w.WriteHeader(http.StatusNotFound)
> fmt.Fprintln(w, err.Error())
> return
> }
>
> w.Header().Add("Location", longUrl)
> w.WriteHeader(http.StatusTemporaryRedirect)
> }
>
> But on the solution of exercise I see this method: http.Redirect(...) So,
> I looked into implementation of that method, and discovered that it do
> redirection via html, but Mozilla
> <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Redirections> write it
> about redirection:
> HTTP redirects are the best way to create redirections, but sometimes you
> don't have control over the server.
> And redirection in that case, is the case where I have control over the
> server, so what's the reason of redirection via html?
>
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