What is the preferred way to redirect a request in Pylons without losing form data?

Question

I'm trying to redirect/forward a Pylons request. The problem with using redirect_to is that form data gets dropped. I need to keep the POST form data intact as well as all request headers.

Is there a simple way to do this?

Answer 1

Receiving data from a POST depends on the web browser sending data along. When the web browser receives a redirect, it does not resend that data along. One solution would be to URL encode the data you want to keep and use that with a GET. In the worst case, you could always add the data you want to keep to the session and pass it that way.