See full redirect path and HTTP status code in Chrome

Question

I'm trying to find out of a certain link shorteners and out.php linkscripts redirect using 301 redirect or not. I'm looking at the resources tab in Chrome's developer tools, but it only shows headers for the target page and not for the link scripts itself.

Also, some of the sites I'm investigating actually redirect more than once, so it'd be best if I could track the entire redirect path.

How can I see if how I was exactly redirected, and if they were using 301 or not?

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score 159 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 11 '18 at 12:07

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At the top of Chrome's inspector (in the Network tab) is a checkbox which says Preserve log. Enable this option. Now it doesn't matter at all how the page navigates, the inspector will keep all log history -- including the redirect response.

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At the bottom of Chrome's inspector (in the Network tab) is a button with a big circle. Hover over this button and a tooltip says Preserve log upon navigation. Click the button and it will turn red. Now it doesn't matter at all how the page navigates, the inspector will keep all log history -- including the redirect response.

edited Jun 11 '18 at 12:07

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answered Apr 26 '13 at 14:57

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This is now (actually, has been for a while) a more relevant answer than the originally accepted one. I accepted this one instead. – Stephan Muller Sep 22 '14 at 21:29
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Note, if you're tracing redirects for XHR or some kind of REST calls, and cannot see 301 or 302 redirects - be sure that in the "Network tab" you have enabled not only "XHR" filter, but _also_ filter "Other" (you can select multiple ones via Ctrl + Click). Of course you can always use "All" filter, but it will have a lot of noise from other request types. – Dimitry K Jun 26 '19 at 13:09

score 20 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 16 '17 at 10:53

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I had the same issue and found the solution differed slightly to previous answers.

I had to select Other for the document type in the filter bar, as well as have preserve log ticked and record network log on.

answered Jun 16 '17 at 10:53

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302 Redirects only show when Other is selected (as of Google Chrome 67 on mac os 10.13) – user674669 Jul 13 '18 at 06:50
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thanks for that, I was filtering to Doc and was really confused why it wasn't showing up. – Eluvatar Mar 13 '20 at 08:30

viperguynaz · Answer 3 · 2011-01-24T18:43:45.473

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In Chrome's developer tools - select "Resources" - then under either "Documents" or "Other" you should be able to find the original request- view the "Headers" to see status code of 301. There's a great article here - http://www.html5rocks.com/tutorials/developertools/part1/#toc-resources

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answered Jan 24 '11 at 18:13

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When a page is refreshed by javascript or meta refresh it won't track. I did get what I needed though, so thanks :) – Stephan Muller Jan 25 '11 at 08:18
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You can now see this in the Network area, with Status being one of the columns in the table. – digitaljoel Oct 25 '11 at 15:51
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Quick note that "Preserve log upon Navigation" should be enabled to see each request/response – Josh Smeaton Mar 27 '13 at 03:58

See full redirect path and HTTP status code in Chrome

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