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Both the Microsoft .NET framework and the libCURL framework (and probably others) are known to process a redirect from a POST request by changing the POST to a GET and then sending the new request to the redirect server. Workarounds exist in the impacted frameworks because the behavior is known to be in violation of the specification.

According to RFC 2616: "When automatically redirecting a POST request after receiving a 301 status code, some existing HTTP 1.0 user agents will erroneously change it into a GET request."