Question

If I have a URL (eg. http://www.foo.com/alink.pl?page=2), I want to determine if I am being redirected to another link. I’d also like to know the final URL (eg. http://www.foo.com/other_link.pl). Finally, I want to be able to do this in Perl and Groovy.

Answer 1

In Perl:

use LWP::UserAgent; my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;  my $request  = HTTP::Request->new( GET => 'http://google.com/' ); my $response = $ua->request($request); if ( $response->is_success and $response->previous ) {     print $request->url, ' redirected to ', $response->request->uri, '\n'; }