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-rw-r--r--src/network/access/qnetworkrequest.cpp5
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diff --git a/src/network/access/qnetworkrequest.cpp b/src/network/access/qnetworkrequest.cpp
index de40b2c088..8cc916b153 100644
--- a/src/network/access/qnetworkrequest.cpp
+++ b/src/network/access/qnetworkrequest.cpp
@@ -410,6 +410,11 @@ QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE
for example, to ask the user whether to
accept the redirect, or to decide
based on some app-specific configuration.
+
+ \note When Qt handles redirects it will, for legacy and compatibility
+ reasons, issue the redirected request using GET when the server returns
+ a 301 or 302 response, regardless of the original method used, unless it was
+ HEAD.
*/
/*!