Http redirect content-type

[Andrew_Smith1 (Andrew Smith)]

I notice that in the http.Redirect function, if the method of the originating request was a GET or a HEAD, then the Content-Type is set to text/html. What is the rationale for this? What is the purpose of setting a Content-Type on a redirect, and what if the page being redirected to, is not of type text/html?

https://golang.org/src/net/http/server.go?s=60163:60228#L2045

Is this logic right?

Thanks

Andy

[Andrew_Smith1 (Andrew Smith)]

Just realised that golang sends an html body in the redirect response, containing an anchor element pointing to the redirect location!

[Andrew_Smith1 (Andrew Smith)]

What is not clear to me is why the body terminates the anchor with a ‘.’, any idea?

<a href="http://www.example.com/redirect">OK</a>.

https://golang.org/src/net/http/server.go?s=60163:60228#L2055