HTTP.post() or any non-GET request does not follow redirects

[rclai]

Regardless of setting the followRedirects option to true, non-GET requests will not follow redirects because of how request works.

According to here:
https://github.com/mikeal/request#requestoptions-callback

The followAllRedirects options must be set to true in order for non-GET requests to follow redirects.

In the code here: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/devel/packages/http/httpcall_server.js

We need to be able to pass the followAllRedirects argument in.

[glasser]

You're right, the behavior does not match our docs.

[rclai]

I am just going to use the request npm. This is no biggie.

[glasser]

I actually do think we should fix this. It's one of the few options we implement and document, so it should work properly! (That said, I also think we should minimize the amount of options we expose in packages like http so that we don't run into these sorts of details in the future, and it's totally reasonable to use the request npm module directly if you want to do more advanced things with http!)

[rclai]

Oh.. okay

[rclai]

Thanks! :)