C#

Http Follow Redirects

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Demonstrates how to automatically follow redirects. C#

Chilkat.Http http = new Chilkat.Http();

//  If you would like to see the HTTP session log to see how 
//  HTTP redirects were followed.
http.SessionLogFilename = "c:/temp/qa_output/sessionLog.txt";

//  Run the test using this URL.
//  (Works while httpbin.org keeps the test endpoint available.)

string url = "https://httpbin.org/redirect-to?url={$redirectUrl}&status_code={$statusCode}";

http.SetUrlVar("redirectUrl","https://chilkatsoft.com/helloWorld.json");
http.SetUrlVar("statusCode","302");

string jsonResponse = http.QuickGetStr(url);
if (http.LastMethodSuccess == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(http.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

Debug.WriteLine("Response status code: " + Convert.ToString(http.LastStatus));
Debug.WriteLine(jsonResponse);

//  How to tell if the request was redirected, and if so,
//  what was the final redirect URL?
Debug.WriteLine("Was Redirected: " + Convert.ToString(http.WasRedirected));
Debug.WriteLine("Final Redirect URL: " + http.FinalRedirectUrl);

//  Output:

//  Response status code: 200
//  { "hello": "world" }
//  Was Redirected: True
//  Final Redirect URL: https://chilkatsoft.com/helloWorld.json

//  -----------------------------------------------
//  Here are the contents of the sessionLog.txt

//  ---- Sending Sat, 30 Aug 2025 11:41:37 GMT ----
//  GET /redirect-to?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchilkatsoft.com%2FhelloWorld.json&status_code=302 HTTP/1.1
//  Host: httpbin.org
//  Accept: */*
//  Accept-Encoding: gzip
//  
//  
//  ---- Received Sat, 30 Aug 2025 11:41:37 GMT ----
//  HTTP/1.1 302 FOUND
//  Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2025 11:41:38 GMT
//  Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
//  Content-Length: 0
//  Connection: keep-alive
//  Server: gunicorn/19.9.0
//  Location: https://chilkatsoft.com/helloWorld.json
//  Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
//  Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
//  
//  
//  ---- Sending Sat, 30 Aug 2025 11:41:38 GMT ----
//  GET /helloWorld.json HTTP/1.1
//  Host: chilkatsoft.com
//  Accept: */*
//  Accept-Encoding: gzip
//  
//  
//  ---- Received Sat, 30 Aug 2025 11:41:38 GMT ----
//  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
//  Content-Type: application/json
//  Last-Modified: Sun, 20 Aug 2023 11:36:27 GMT
//  Accept-Ranges: bytes
//  ETag: "34c27f8e5ad3d91:0"
//  Server: Microsoft-IIS/10.0
//  X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
//  Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2025 11:41:38 GMT
//  Content-Length: 22
//  
//  { "hello": "world" }