Ruby Net::HTTP - following 301 redirects

Question

My users submit urls (to mixes on mixcloud.com) and my app uses them to perform web requests.

A good url returns a 200 status code:

Answer 1

rest-client follows the redirections for GET and HEAD requests without any additional configuration. It works very nice.

• for result codes between 200 and 207, a RestClient::Response will be returned
• for result codes 301, 302 or 307, the redirection will be followed if the request is a GET or a HEAD
• for result code 303, the redirection will be followed and the request transformed into a GET

example of usage:

require 'rest-client'

RestClient.get 'http://example.com/resource'

The rest-client README also gives an example of following redirects with POST requests:

begin
  RestClient.post('http://example.com/redirect', 'body')
rescue RestClient::MovedPermanently,
       RestClient::Found,
       RestClient::TemporaryRedirect => err
  err.response.follow_redirection
end