Perl

Http Follow Redirects

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Demonstrates how to automatically follow redirects. Chilkat2 Perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

my $http = Chilkat2::Http->new;

# 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.)

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

$http->SetUrlVar('redirectUrl', 'https://chilkatsoft.com/helloWorld.json');
$http->SetUrlVar('statusCode', '302');

my $jsonResponse = $http->QuickGetStr($url);
if (!$http->LastMethodSuccess) {
    print $http->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'Response status code: ', $http->LastStatus, "\n";
print $jsonResponse, "\n";

# How to tell if the request was redirected, and if so,
# what was the final redirect URL?
print 'Was Redirected: ', ($http->WasRedirected ? 1 : 0), "\n";
print 'Final Redirect URL: ', $http->FinalRedirectUrl, "\n";

# 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" }