From: "Michael J. I. Jackson" <mjijackson@...>
Date: 2009-06-26T05:45:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting final URL during HTTP redirection

What makes this problem even more difficult is that redirects could  
happen on the client side. It's something that I've been looking into  
a lot lately, but no luck yet. I'd be very interested if anybody knows  
of a good solution that could handle this as well.

Michael

On Jun 25, 2009, at 2:36 PM, Daniel Otero wrote:

> I need URL resolution for some software I'm working on. Better put, I
> want to figure out the final URL at which you land when requesting  
> some
> initial URL. I have no interest in the page data itself.
>
> Properly handling redirects robustly is difficult due to the horrific
> tendency of many developers and servers to improperly handle them.  
> You'd
> expect a Location header, but I've run into several other possible
> responses ranging from Redirect headers to html meta tags.
>
> Is there some library out there that will make my job easier, or  
> will I
> have to roll my own. Keep in mind I want the URL that was last
> requested, not the response from that request.
>
> Thanks!
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