[Httpunit-develop] Redirects

[Erik H. <eh...@ne...>]

I'm writing tests for a set of pages that includes one that redirects to
another page. I've been having some trouble so I did some investigation and
I've learned that there are two ways to handle redirection.

The first method is to have the web server return an HTTP result code of 302
and include a "Location" header that tells the browser what URL to redirect
to.

The second method is to include the tag "<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh"
content="0; URL=http://www.somewhere.com">" in a page, and then the browser
should know to redirect to the specified URL.

Is that right?

If so, then I think that only the first method is handled by HttpUnit. Is that
right?

And if that's true, should HttpUnit (in an ideal world) handle the second
method, should I handle it myself, or is that second method evil?


Erik