Fixed #23960 -- Removed http.fix_location_header

Thanks Carl Meyer for the report and Tim Graham for the review.

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/django/http/__init__.py b/django/http/__init__.py
index cf1e5d3950..6f433b39b8 100644
--- a/django/http/__init__.py
+++ b/django/http/__init__.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ from django.http.response import (
     HttpResponseNotFound, HttpResponseNotAllowed, HttpResponseGone,
     HttpResponseServerError, Http404, BadHeaderError, JsonResponse,
 )
-from django.http.utils import fix_location_header, conditional_content_removal
+from django.http.utils import conditional_content_removal
 
 __all__ = [
     'SimpleCookie', 'parse_cookie', 'HttpRequest', 'QueryDict',
@@ -17,6 +17,6 @@ __all__ = [
     'HttpResponsePermanentRedirect', 'HttpResponseNotModified',
     'HttpResponseBadRequest', 'HttpResponseForbidden', 'HttpResponseNotFound',
     'HttpResponseNotAllowed', 'HttpResponseGone', 'HttpResponseServerError',
-    'Http404', 'BadHeaderError', 'fix_location_header', 'JsonResponse',
-    'FileResponse', 'conditional_content_removal',
+    'Http404', 'BadHeaderError', 'JsonResponse', 'FileResponse',
+    'conditional_content_removal',
 ]
diff --git a/django/http/utils.py b/django/http/utils.py
index 5dcac06dcf..3ea71cb892 100644
--- a/django/http/utils.py
+++ b/django/http/utils.py
@@ -9,19 +9,6 @@ Functions that modify an HTTP request or response in some way.
 # universally applicable.
 
 
-def fix_location_header(request, response):
-    """
-    Ensures that we always use an absolute URI in any location header in the
-    response. This is required by RFC 2616, section 14.30.
-
-    Code constructing response objects is free to insert relative paths, as
-    this function converts them to absolute paths.
-    """
-    if 'Location' in response:
-        response['Location'] = request.build_absolute_uri(response['Location'])
-    return response
-
-
 def conditional_content_removal(request, response):
     """
     Removes the content of responses for HEAD requests, 1xx, 204 and 304