Question

I have a URL that redirects me to another website. I would like to get the target url from the original one in C#. Is there any way to follow these redirections?

Answer 1

You can use the HttpWebRequest class

var request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(someUrl);
request.AllowAutoRedirect = false;
var response = (HttpWebResponse) request.GetResponse();
if (response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.Found) // Found == 302
{
    // Do something...
    string newUrl = response.Headers["Location"];
}

Also, you can follow redirections automatically by setting:

request.AllowAutoRedirect = true;
request.MaximumAutomaticRedirections = 4; //number of redirections allowed

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