Re: [Haskell-cafe] Contributing to http-conduit

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Myles C. Maxfield wrote:

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote:

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On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Myles C. Maxfield wrote:

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I have attached a patch to add a redirect chain to the Response datatype. Comments on this patch are very welcome.

I thought that this isn't necessary since a client wanting to track all the redirects could just handle them manually by setting the redirect count to 0.

It seems like a lot of work to re-implement the redirection-following code, just to know which URL the bytes are coming from.  I feel that adding this field makes the library easier to use, but it's your call.

If that's the concern, I'd much rather just expose a function to help with dealing with redirects, rather than sticking a rather arbitrary [Ascii] in everyone's Response. I think a function along the lines of: checkRedirect :: Response -> Maybe Request would fit the bill, and could be extracted from the current `http` function. Michael