Question

As I read here redirection can be easily turned of by --max-redirect 0. But what in case when there is two kinds of redirection: good one and the bad one.

In my case good redirection is:

http://someaddres.com/888.html -> http://someaddres.com/some-string-in-url-describing-page.html

where bad redirection is:

http://someaddres.com/555.html -> http://someaddres.com/

What can I do to fallow only good redirections?

Answer 1

As @Thor84no said, one solution can parse response. This is mine:

REDIRECTED_TO=`wget --max-redirect 0 $ADDRESS 2>&1 | grep "Location" | sed 's|.*\(http://.*/.*\) .*|\1|'`

if [ "$REDIRECTED_TO" != "$BAD_REDIRECTION" ]; then wget $REDIRECTED_TO; fi