Django test client redirecting to URLs without a trailing slash redirects instead to the current view

[Tom Hamilton Stubber]

Currently, when you redirect with the test client to an external URL without a trailing slash, the test client will redirect to the view you redirected from.

For example, if I test a view at /my-view/ that redirects to https://example.com, the test client will instead redirect to /my-view/.

Presumably this isn't intended behaviour but feel free to correct me.

[Tom Hamilton Stubber]

PR ​https://github.com/django/django/pull/14457

[Mariusz Felisiak]

You shouldn't accept or mark as RFC your own tickets/PRs.

[Carlton Gibson]

I think this is probably valid. I su

​RFC 2616 (HTTP/1.1) has this for an HTTP URL:

http_URL = "http:" "//" host [ ":" port ] [ abs_path [ "?" query ]]

It then says:

If the abs_path is not present in the URL, it MUST be given as "/" when used as a Request-URI for a resource.

i.e. the client MUST treat https://example.com as https://example.com/.

(Inclined towards thinking this should probably apply to the Location headers set by the server too, but the test client can't control for that.)

[Carlton Gibson <carlton.gibson@…>]

In 1e5aa8e1:

Fixed #32790 -- Ensured test Client handles redirects to domain indexes without a specified trailing slash.