Incorrectly issues a GET request instead of POST when given a valid --session

[raphaelh]

When the session file exists, httpie issues a GET request even though it was told to issue a POST:

$ http --pretty=all --verbose --session="$SESSIONFILE" --follow --form POST "$BASEURL" _token="$TOKEN" _task="login" _action="login" _user="$USER" _pass="$PASS"
GET /roundcube/?_task=mail HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8
Cookie: roundcube_sessid=hr9nh5kh898l8p96o9l4q2gdq4; roundcube_sessid=o41hfqjhsg1coe84vpnnpn7415; roundcube_sessauth=S45bd81346b5fadf9c8e43669cd32fa957611783f
Host: demo.linuxsolutions.com.br
User-Agent: HTTPie/0.8.0

When the session file doesn't exist (notice xx at the end of --session="$SESSIONFILE"), httpie correctly issues a POST request:

$ http --pretty=all --verbose --session="$SESSIONFILE"xx --follow --form POST "$BASEURL" _token="$TOKEN" _task="login" _action="login" _user="$USER" _pass="$PASS"
POST /roundcube/ HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Content-Length: 117
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8
Host: demo.linuxsolutions.com.br
User-Agent: HTTPie/0.8.0

_token=f5a7c5fdb3e95d4686606402a1998883&_task=login&_action=login&_user=demo%40linuxsolutions.com.br&_pass=%23demo%24

You can find the full script here: https://github.com/raphaelh/roundcube_scripts/blob/master/rc_unread_httpie.sh

[jkbrzt]

I'm unable to reproduce this. Could you provide a minimal example?

$ http -v --session=issue364 httpbin.org/post foo=bar | grep POST
POST /post HTTP/1.1
$ http -v --session=issue364 httpbin.org/post foo=bar | grep POST
POST /post HTTP/1.1

[raphaelh]

Try this script: https://gist.github.com/raphaelh/3b65bd16fb6e2662e412

Run it several times, it will alternatively issue GET and POST

[jkbrzt]

When you remove --follow from the command, you get POST every time. It's because currently, only the last request/response is output when a redirect is --followed. A limitation that should be fixed soon.

[raphaelh]

Thanks for your quick reply. So is there a workaround at the moment?

[raphaelh]

Any update on this issue?

[jkbrzt]

@raphaelh the current master has a new --show-redirects option