Requests - Handling Redirection

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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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