On 14 July 2016 at 17:38, Thiago Macieira <thi...@kde.org> wrote: > On quinta-feira, 14 de julho de 2016 18:33:37 PDT Ben Cooksley wrote: > > > Unfortunately, from it's first iteration in Qt 4 QNetworkAccessManager > > w > e > as shipped with a severe and fundamental defect in that it does not > > follow HTTP redirects by default. Due to Qt behavioural and other > > compatibility promises they can never change this behaviour, not even > > in Qt 6. >
This is incorrect. We can certainly change it in qt6. In fact it's an open discussion if we can change it before - we need evidence that the change will not break apps that handle redirects themselves. If anyone has time to test this then please let me know the results. > > > > Please therefore ensure your application handles redirects > > appropriately (the form of the code will depend on the version of Qt > > in use) if you decide to use QNAM. > > You do that by setting the attribute FollowRedirectsAttribute in your > QNetworkRequests. > > Yes, the code in the example dfaure has linked to does it the hard way. Cheers Rich.
