HTTP redirects get cached even where they should not

When a HTTP Redirect is received, VLC updates the playlist accordingly - It caches the redirect. Most of the time this is useful because it speeds stream-playing up. But it is a problem when the playlist item calls a script that every-time returns a different url (or the old url is invalid by now).

It is even stated in RFC 2616, 0.3.8 307 Temporary Redirect:

The requested resource resides temporarily under a different URI. Since the redirection MAY be altered on occasion, the client SHOULD continue to use the Request-URI for future requests.

Altering the playlist ONLY on redirects other than 307 would solve this issue.

I have created a small patch, which is available at http://paste.videolan.org/2834

But beware: I'm not familiar with the VLC source. I only looked at the file for a moment and hacked that up. I didn't even try to compile it.

assigned to @Courmisch

changed milestone to %0.9.0 bugs

added Difficulty::easy label

(In [24151]) Only rewrite the URI if it's a permanent redirection. Thanks to Sebastian Wiedenroth for the patch + some modification by me. Fix #1408 (closed)

added Status::fixed label

closed