Juri Leino

I a have a hard time understanding where the introduction of custom assertions changes the coding paradigm to procedural.

related https://github.com/eXist-db/public-repo/pull/76

@joewiz We discussed this issue in the community call and I asked where to find the implementation of the redirect-to function. That is what @dizzzz is referring to.

@joewiz No that just calls the `redirectTo` method of a class that extends or implements the `ResponseWrapper`. But I haven't found the actual implementation of `redirectTo` that is used.

According to the Javadoc of HTTPServletResponse.sendRedirect the behaviour we are observing should not be happening. That looks to me as if the ResponseWrapper implementation that is used here would interfere.

So digging deeper it appears to be a jetty specific behaviour. The host header is used to build absolute URLs including scheme and host. BUT, fortunately there is now an...

I can confirm that adding ```xml ``` to jetty.xml (for me it was at Line 78) does indeed change the behaviour so that the above tests will pass. Should we...

I was wondering where the earlier comment went. But de-facto, just by looking at MDN there is zero need to add scheme and URL to the location header.

"My" HTTP-client being all major browsers.

There are three forms of absolute URLs 1. starts with a slash followed by the full path to a resource 2. starts with a scheme followed by the host and...