Fixed #32790 -- Ensured test Client handles redirects to domain indexes without a specified trailing slash.

django/test/client.py

@@ -834,7 +834,7 @@ class Client(ClientMixin, RequestFactory):
                 extra['SERVER_PORT'] = str(url.port)
 
             # Prepend the request path to handle relative path redirects
-            path = url.path
+            path = url.path or '/'
             if not path.startswith('/'):
                 path = urljoin(response.request['PATH_INFO'], path)
 

tests/test_client/tests.py

@@ -762,6 +762,13 @@ class ClientTest(TestCase):
         response = self.client.get('/django_project_redirect/')
         self.assertRedirects(response, 'https://www.djangoproject.com/', fetch_redirect_response=False)
 
+    def test_external_redirect_without_trailing_slash(self):
+        """
+        Client._handle_redirects() with an empty path.
+        """
+        response = self.client.get('/no_trailing_slash_external_redirect/', follow=True)
+        self.assertRedirects(response, 'https://testserver')
+
     def test_external_redirect_with_fetch_error_msg(self):
         """
         assertRedirects without fetch_redirect_response=False raises

tests/test_client/urls.py

@@ -46,8 +46,9 @@ urlpatterns = [
     path('mass_mail_sending_view/', views.mass_mail_sending_view),
     path('nesting_exception_view/', views.nesting_exception_view),
     path('django_project_redirect/', views.django_project_redirect),
+    path('no_trailing_slash_external_redirect/', views.no_trailing_slash_external_redirect),
+    path('', views.index_view, name='index'),  # Target for no_trailing_slash_external_redirect/ with follow=True
     path('two_arg_exception/', views.two_arg_exception),
-
     path('accounts/', RedirectView.as_view(url='login/')),
     path('accounts/no_trailing_slash', RedirectView.as_view(url='login/')),
     path('accounts/login/', auth_views.LoginView.as_view(template_name='login.html')),

tests/test_client/views.py

@@ -381,6 +381,22 @@ def django_project_redirect(request):
     return HttpResponseRedirect('https://www.djangoproject.com/')
 
 
+def no_trailing_slash_external_redirect(request):
+    """
+    RFC 2616 3.2.2: A bare domain without any abs_path element should be
+    treated as having the trailing `/`.
+
+    Use https://testserver, rather than an external domain, in order to allow
+    use of follow=True, triggering Client._handle_redirects().
+    """
+    return HttpResponseRedirect('https://testserver')
+
+
+def index_view(request):
+    """Target for no_trailing_slash_external_redirect with follow=True."""
+    return HttpResponse('Hello world')
+
+
 def upload_view(request):
     """Prints keys of request.FILES to the response."""
     return HttpResponse(', '.join(request.FILES))