Question

Is it possible to create a batch file thats check if a website / url redirect to another site?

for example check if http://www.google.com/ redirect to http://www.google.com/randomsite.php/ and i would be great if it could do a status like:

www.google.dk/ Redirects to www.google.dk/randomsite.php/

for example with echo and some varible like:

echo %Google1% Redirects to %Google2%

And that would look like this

www.google.dk/ Redirects to www.google.dk/randomsite.php/

Answer 1

There are no built-in tools in Windows, but if you download a Windows compatible version of curl, you can use that to print the headers. This blog article seems a good place to start.

For example:

curl -sL http://www.stackoverflow.com --head | find "301" OR
curl -sL http://www.stackoverflow.com --head | find "302"

If found, the %ERRORLEVEL% variable will be greater than 0, so you can check that.