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| -rw-r--r-- | actionpack/lib/action_controller/metal/redirecting.rb | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/metal/redirecting.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/metal/redirecting.rb index 35ded8a56c..5e7bd44562 100644 --- a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/metal/redirecting.rb +++ b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/metal/redirecting.rb @@ -45,6 +45,16 @@ module ActionController # integer, or a symbol representing the downcased, underscored and symbolized description. # Note that the status code must be a 3xx HTTP code, or redirection will not occur. # + # If you are using XHR requests other than GET or POST and redirecting after the + # request then some browsers will follow the redirect using the original request + # method. This may lead to undesirable behavior such as a double DELETE. To work + # around this you can return a <tt>303 See Other</tt> status code which will be + # followed using a GET request. + # + # Examples: + # redirect_to posts_url, :status => :see_other + # redirect_to :action => 'index', :status => 303 + # # It is also possible to assign a flash message as part of the redirection. There are two special accessors for the commonly used flash names # +alert+ and +notice+ as well as a general purpose +flash+ bucket. # |