alexentwistle / redirect-trace

Identify every "hop" in a redirect chain

Redirect Checker

This Redirect Checker uses the Python Requests library to analyse redirect chains on a given URL.

How it works

1. Run user-input.py
2. Enter your URL (remembering to specify http or https)
3. The script will list out each step in the redirect chain, alongside a response code for each step.

Usage notes

To inspect the returned status code:

• print(r.status_code)

To inspect the returned URL:

• print(r.url)

To inspect the redirect history:

• print(r.history)

Example - Analysing redirect chain for http://wikipedia.org:

Run user-input.py
Prompt: Please enter your URL (including http or https):
Input: http://wikipedia.org

Output:
1 http://wikipedia.org/ 301
2 https://wikipedia.org/ 301
Complete: https://www.wikipedia.org/ 200

Conclusion: There were two 'hops' in this redirect chain. Both redirects were 301s (permanent redirects).