Is it possible to find out if the provided website has a re-direct?

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I am trying to build a front end application which will an input text box.

When a user enters an URL in the text field(ex www.google.com, wwww.facebook.com, www.linked.com, etc..), the web app should tell the user whether if the provided address has a re-direction?

Can it be done from ajax?

AJAX likely won’t be able to request _anything_ for most URLs your users will input, because of CORS not being enabled by many of them. — CBroe, Aug 22 '16 at 12:01
Possible duplicate of [Detecting a redirect in jQuery $.ajax?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9177252/detecting-a-redirect-in-jquery-ajax) — Jeff Puckett, Aug 22 '16 at 12:01
you can check using curl. try [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4607684/curl-and-ping-how-to-check-whether-a-website-is-either-up-or-down) — Rohit Kishore, Aug 22 '16 at 12:20

Tom · Answer 1 · 2018-11-16T17:44:09.863

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You can send a GET request to the URL and see what it returns.

Every HTTP response will come with a status code.

You can see the full list of HTTP status codes here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes

A 301 means the URL has a permanent redirect and a 302 means there is a temporary redirect.

edited Nov 16 '18 at 17:44

answered Nov 16 '18 at 17:38

Tom

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Is it possible to find out if the provided website has a re-direct?

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