Ruby - net/http - following redirects

Question

I've got a URL and I'm using HTTP GET to pass a query along to a page. What happens with the most recent flavor (in net/http) is that the script doesn't go beyond the 302 response. I've tried several different solutions; HTTPClient, net/http, Rest-Client, Patron...

I need a way to continue to the final page in order to validate an attribute tag on that pages html. The redirection is due to a mobile user agent hitting a page that redirects to a mobile view, hence the mobile user agent in the header. Here is my code as it is today:

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

class Check_Get_Page

    def more_http
        url = URI.parse('my_url')
        req, data = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url.path, {
        'User-Agent' => 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8H7 Safari/6533.18.5'
        })
        res = Net::HTTP.start(url.host, url.port) {|http|
        http.request(req)
            }
        cookie = res.response['set-cookie']
        puts 'Body = ' + res.body
        puts 'Message = ' + res.message
        puts 'Code = ' + res.code
        puts "Cookie 
" + cookie
    end

end

m = Check_Get_Page.new
m.more_http

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

user_669745 · Answer

Given a URL that redirects

url = 'http://httpbin.org/redirect-to?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fredirect-to%3Furl%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fexample.org'

A. Net::HTTP

begin
  response = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(url))
  url = response['location']
end while response.is_a?(Net::HTTPRedirection)

Make sure that you handle the case when there are too many redirects.

B. OpenURI

open(url).read

OpenURI::OpenRead#open follows redirects by default, but it doesn't limit the number of redirects.

user_3674079 · Answer

If you do not need to care about the details at each redirection, you can use the library Mechanize

require 'mechanize'

agent = Mechanize.new
begin
    response = @agent.get(url)
rescue Mechanize::ResponseCodeError
    // response codes other than 200, 301, or 302
rescue Timeout::Error
rescue Mechanize::RedirectLimitReachedError
rescue StandardError
end

It will return the destination page. Or you can turn off redirection by this :

agent.redirect_ok = false

Or you can optionally change some settings at the request

agent.user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; Nexus 5 Build/MRA58N) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.106 Mobile Safari/537.36"

Ruby - net/http - following redirects

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