Handling redirections in python

Question

I have a URL that looks like http://www.example.com/link?url=http://www.google.com. And the URL redirects to http://www.google.com when opened in the browser. But when I check the status code of the URL, it shows 200 instead of 3xx. Even if I check with print(url.history) it shows []. Please explain!

Edit: I checked the response of the request it was like :

var url = 'http://www.google.com';
window.location=url;
</script>
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This seems to be a DUPE question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20475552/python-requests-library-redirect-new-url — Wonka, Dec 16 '19 at 16:06
Does this answer your question? [Python Requests library redirect new url](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20475552/python-requests-library-redirect-new-url) — Wonka, Dec 16 '19 at 16:06
https://2.python-requests.org/en/master/user/quickstart/#redirection-and-history — chepner, Dec 16 '19 at 16:07

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 17 '19 at 09:09

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requests.get by default running with {'allow_redirects': True}, which means you will have response.status_code output 200, not 302 or 301.

edited Dec 17 '19 at 09:09

Nazim Kerimbekov

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answered Dec 16 '19 at 16:08

Oleg Butuzov

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Handling redirections in python

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