[QGIS-Developer] QGIS not following 302/redirects

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 8/4/20 4:37 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
> Hi Devs,
> 
> See https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/37956
> 
> According to that user QGIS is not following http 302 redirects.
> Some googling reveals that Qt-networking is not doing that automatically.
> 
> I'm wondering IF it would be easy to add,
> OR should not be added as redirection can be tricky/mis-used...?

Found this Qt example in which explicitly is warned for the https -> http insecure redirect...

https://git.sailfishos.org/mer-core/qtbase/commit/d815de8c26ccee33713e37a0fec2982755dcfe1f

(but I do not feel confident enough to introduce this myself ...)

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde