How to read the response effective URL in Guzzle ~6.0

Question

I\'ve been searching for about 2 hours and I can\'t figure it out how to read the final response uri.

In previous versions of PHP Guzzle you just call

Answer 1

You can check what redirects your request had byt setting track_redirects parameter:

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client(['allow_redirects' => ['track_redirects' => true]]);

$response = $client->request('GET', 'http://example.com');

var_dump($response->getHeader(\GuzzleHttp\RedirectMiddleware::HISTORY_HEADER));

If there were any redirects last one should be your effective url otherewise your initial url.

You can read more about allow_redirects here http://docs.guzzlephp.org/en/latest/request-options.html#allow-redirects.