Question

I have a URL that returns a HTTP 302 redirect, and I would like to get the URL it redirects to.

The problem is that System.Net.WebClient seems to actually follow it, which is bad. HttpWebRequest seems to do the same.

Is there a way to make a simple HTTP Request and get back the target Location without the WebClient following it?

I’m tempted to do raw socket communication as HTTP is simple enough, but the site uses HTTPS and I don’t want to do the Handshaking.

At the end, I don’t care which class I use, I just don’t want it to follow HTTP 302 Redirects 🙂

Answer 1

On HttpWebRequest you can set AllowAutoRedirect to false to handle the redirect yourself.