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-rw-r--r--user_guide_src/source/helpers/url_helper.rst6
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
index 66dd0ea05..73d9fb0ec 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ Release Date: Not Released
- ``anchor_popup()`` will now fill the "href" attribute with the URL and its JS code will return false instead.
- Added JS window name support to ``anchor_popup()`` function.
- Added support (auto-detection) for HTTP/1.1 response code 303 in ``redirect()``.
+ - "auto" method in ``redirect()`` now chooses the "refresh" method only on IIS servers, instead of all servers on Windows.
- Added XHTML Basic 1.1 doctype to :doc:`HTML Helper <helpers/html_helper>`.
- Changed ``humanize()`` to include a second param for the separator.
- Refactored ``plural()`` and ``singular()`` to avoid double pluralization and support more words.
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/helpers/url_helper.rst b/user_guide_src/source/helpers/url_helper.rst
index 305454048..1987dfb72 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/helpers/url_helper.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/helpers/url_helper.rst
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ link. The function will build the URL based on your config file values.
The optional second parameter allows you to force a particular redirection
method. The available methods are "location" or "refresh", with location
-being faster but less reliable on Windows servers. The default is "auto",
+being faster but less reliable on IIS servers. The default is "auto",
which will attempt to intelligently choose the method based on the server
environment.
@@ -325,3 +325,7 @@ engine purposes. The default Response Code is 302. The third parameter is
.. note:: For very fine grained control over headers, you should use the
`Output Library </libraries/output>` set_header() function.
+
+.. note:: To IIS users: if you hide the `Server` HTTP header, the "auto"
+ method won't detect IIS, in that case it is advised you explicitly
+ use the "refresh" method.