Merge pull request #6985 from bugok/http_auth_header

Stripping out Authorization header on redirect to a different host

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/chef/http.rb b/lib/chef/http.rb
index 241806da4e..a10906443b 100644
--- a/lib/chef/http.rb
+++ b/lib/chef/http.rb
@@ -381,7 +381,9 @@ class Chef
         elsif redirect_location = redirected_to(response)
           if [:GET, :HEAD].include?(method)
             follow_redirect do
-              send_http_request(method, url + redirect_location, headers, body, &response_handler)
+              redirected_url = url + redirect_location
+              headers.delete("Authorization") if url.host != redirected_url.host
+              send_http_request(method, redirected_url, headers, body, &response_handler)
             end
           else
             raise Exceptions::InvalidRedirect, "#{method} request was redirected from #{url} to #{redirect_location}. Only GET and HEAD support redirects."