Fixes AllowAutoRedirect should be false #9310

[Graham Lyus (grahamlyus)]

Description

Fixes #9310

Type of Change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)

Why

AllowAutoRedirect is true by default, and this causes network requests to fail without much information other than "Unhandled exception during request" . Using the debugger, I found this was due to 0x80072F88 - The HTTP redirect request must be confirmed by the user.

react-native on iOS/Android/macOS does not automatically follow redirects.
Resolves #9310

What

Uses HttpBaseProtocolFilter to disable auto redirects.

Microsoft Reviewers: Open in CodeFlow

[Nick Gerleman (NickGerleman)]

Julio César Rocha (@JunielKatarn) do you have insight into the correct behavior here?

[Julio César Rocha (JunielKatarn)]

Julio César Rocha (@JunielKatarn) do you have insight into the correct behavior here?

Based on react-native's sources, neither iOS, Android or Office's closed-source HTTP module seem to explicitly declare allowing/disabling redirects.

Graham Lyus (@grahamlyus) if your statement in #9310 holds true, this change seems correct in principle.
However, I'm concerned if certain applications would require redirect on their particular HTTP endpoints and this change could potentially break their scenarios.

Ideally, this change should:

1. Enable redirects to be configurable.
2. Add a test validating this (probably non-trivial).

[Graham Lyus (grahamlyus)]

Julio César Rocha (@JunielKatarn) as I mentioned in #9310, the auto redirect isn't even handled as it's expecting the user to confirm the redirect somehow - error: 0x80072F88 - The HTTP redirect request must be confirmed by the user.

I'm not sure how that could fixed or how to make the AllowAutoRedirect configurable, I'm afraid this is the first Windows code I've seen in 15 years! :)

[Chris Glein (chrisglein)]

Julio César Rocha (@JunielKatarn) Can you take a look fresh look at this PR? Is it possible help bridge those last requirements on the bug fix (configuration and test coverage)?

[Julio César Rocha (JunielKatarn)]

Addressed by #10534.