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Max_Heffler2_30
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Apr 02, 2018

Request modification and forwarding to pool without client side redirect

We have “portal.xyz.com” & “api.xyz.com”; for all HTTP POST requests with a specific URI i.e. “portal.xyz.com/portal/server.pt?” we want to modify only the HOST & URI to “api.xyz.com/v1/?” and put it...
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Simon_Blakely
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Apr 03, 2018

Have you used the browser developer tools to determine what is happening with your request?

 

You are probably hitting a redirect issue - your POST request is being changed to a GET by the browser:

 

HTTP 302

 

Many web browsers implemented this code in a manner that violated this standard, changing the request type of the new request to GET, regardless of the type employed in the original request (e.g. POST). For this reason, HTTP/1.1 (RFC 2616) added the new status codes 303 and 307 to disambiguate between the two behaviours, with 303 mandating the change of request type to GET, and 307 preserving the request type as originally sent. Despite the greater clarity provided by this disambiguation, the 302 code is still employed in web frameworks to preserve compatibility with browsers that do not implement the HTTP/1.1 specification.