Ruby - net/http - following redirects

Question

I\'ve got a URL and I\'m using HTTP GET to pass a query along to a page. What happens with the most recent flavor (in net/http) is that the script doesn\'t go

Answer 1

If you do not need to care about the details at each redirection, you can use the library Mechanize

require 'mechanize'

agent = Mechanize.new
begin
    response = @agent.get(url)
rescue Mechanize::ResponseCodeError
    // response codes other than 200, 301, or 302
rescue Timeout::Error
rescue Mechanize::RedirectLimitReachedError
rescue StandardError
end

It will return the destination page. Or you can turn off redirection by this :

agent.redirect_ok = false

Or you can optionally change some settings at the request

agent.user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; Nexus 5 Build/MRA58N) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.106 Mobile Safari/537.36"