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23960	HTTP standard no longer requires the Location header to be an absolute URI	Carl Meyer	Claude Paroz	"RFC 2616 required the `Location` header (in redirect responses) to be an absolute URI. In Django, we have `django.http.utils.fix_location_header()` to unconditionally ensure this.

RFC 2616 has now been superseded by RFC 7231, which allows relative URIs in `Location` (recognizing the actual practice of user agents, almost all of which support them): http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-7.1.2

We should remove `django.http.utils.fix_location_header()`.

Since user agents almost universally allow relative `Location` (I'm not aware of any that don't), I don't believe this change requires a deprecation path, but it should of course be noted in the release notes."	Cleanup/optimization	closed	HTTP handling	1.9	Normal	fixed		mail@…	Ready for checkin	1	0	0	0	0	0