diff --git a/checkin_notes b/checkin_notes
index db50fedfa9..49cba44ef1 100644
--- a/checkin_notes
+++ b/checkin_notes
@@ -2899,3 +2899,11 @@ David  April 1 2008
         cs_scheduler.C
     lib/
         coproc.C,h
+
+Rom    April 1 2008
+    - client: Per Carl's recommendation add CURLOPT_POST301 to the
+        list of curl options used so that the followups to redirects
+        still post instead of get.
+        
+    client/
+        http_curl.C
diff --git a/client/http_curl.C b/client/http_curl.C
index 665eb438e8..a8d67590ed 100644
--- a/client/http_curl.C
+++ b/client/http_curl.C
@@ -416,6 +416,7 @@ int HTTP_OP::libcurl_exec(
     curlErr = curl_easy_setopt(curlEasy, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 50L);
     curlErr = curl_easy_setopt(curlEasy, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, 1L);
     curlErr = curl_easy_setopt(curlEasy, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);
+    curlErr = curl_easy_setopt(curlEasy, CURLOPT_POST301, 1L);
 
     // if we tell Curl to accept any encoding (e.g. deflate)
     // it seems to accept them all, which screws up projects that