MaxRedirects (HttpRequest property)
Automatically handle redirects (HttpRequest class)
The MaxRedirects method lets you request automatic handling of redirects that a Get, Post, or Send method call receives from the server. Since redirects may be chained, that is, the location to which a redirect leads can also return a redirect, MaxRedirects specifies the maximum number of times a redirect is followed when it is returned from a web server.
Syntax
%currentNumber = httpRequest:MaxRedirects httpRequest:MaxRedirects = newNumber
Syntax terms
| currentNumber | A numeric variable to contain the returned value of MaxRedirects. |
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| httpRequest | A previously defined and instantiated HttpRequest object. |
| newNumber | A numeric expression, that evaluates to an integer from 0 through 100, which indicates the maximum number of times a redirect is followed on one Get, Post, or Send call.
If an invalid, or out of range value is specified, the request is canceled. A value of 0 (the default) means redirects are not automatically handled. |
Usage notes
- An HTTP server may return an indication that a page has moved and that the client process should fetch it from a new location. A server indicates this case by returning a response code in the 300s and by returning a response header named “location” that indicates the new location of the page or resource. The HTTP Helper returns such a response code to the application and takes no further action.
- If the maximum number of redirections have been followed, and the last response is still a redirection response code, the last redirection response code is returned to the HTTP Helper application.
- When MaxRedirects is set to a value greater than zero, the following HTTP redirection response codes are automatically handled:
- 301
- Moved Permanently
- 302
- Found
- 303
- See Other
- 307
- Temporary Redirect
For more details concerning HTTP response codes, see http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html.
- To facilitate working with redirects, the HTTPResponse URL method returns the actual URL from which a response was obtained.