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This chapter will take a look at how the Request library handles the url redirection case.
Example
import requests
getdata = requests.get(''http://google.com/'')
print(getdata.status_code)
print(getdata.history)
The url: http://google.com will be redirected using status code 301(Moved Permanently) to https://www.google.com/. The redirection will be saved in the history.
Output
When the above code is executed, we get the following result −
E:prequests>python makeRequest.py 200 [<Response [301]>]
You can stop redirection of a URL using allow_redirects = False. It can be done on GET, POST, OPTIONS, PUT, DELETE, PATCH methods used.
Example
Here is an example on the same.
import requests
getdata = requests.get(''http://google.com/'', allow_redirects=False)
print(getdata.status_code)
print(getdata.history)
print(getdata.text)
Now if you check the output, the redirection will not be allowed and will get a status code of 301.
Output
E:prequests>python makeRequest.py 301 [] <HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"> <TITLE>301 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY> <H1>301 Moved</H1> The document has moved <A HREF="http://www.google.com/">here</A>. </BODY></HTML>
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