How does HTTP 302 work?

You mean how do browsers handle it? The server sends a 302 code along with a Location header, and the browser requests the new URI specified by the Location header instead. Unlike 301 (Moved Permanently), the browser continues to use the original URI to do requests, in case the 302 code goes away

Is it possible to send a 401 Unauthorized AND redirect (with a Location)?

By definition (see RFC 2616), the HTTP 302 response code is the redirect code. Without it, the location header may be ignored. However, you can send an HTTP 401 response and still display output. Instead of redirecting the user to an error page, you could simply write your content you want to send in the … Read more

Setting up redirect in web.config file

Open web.config in the directory where the old pages reside Then add code for the old location path and new destination as follows: <configuration> <location path=”services.htm”> <system.webServer> <httpRedirect enabled=”true” destination=”http://example.com/services” httpResponseStatus=”Permanent” /> </system.webServer> </location> <location path=”products.htm”> <system.webServer> <httpRedirect enabled=”true” destination=”http://example.com/products” httpResponseStatus=”Permanent” /> </system.webServer> </location> </configuration> You may add as many location paths as necessary.

ASP.NET MVC – How to Preserve ModelState Errors Across RedirectToAction?

I had to solve this problem today myself, and came across this question. Some of the answers are useful (using TempData), but don’t really answer the question at hand. The best advice I found was on this blog post: http://www.jefclaes.be/2012/06/persisting-model-state-when-using-prg.html Basically, use TempData to save and restore the ModelState object. However, it’s a lot cleaner … Read more

HTTPURLConnection Doesn’t Follow Redirect from HTTP to HTTPS

Redirects are followed only if they use the same protocol. (See the followRedirect() method in the source.) There is no way to disable this check. Even though we know it mirrors HTTP, from the HTTP protocol point of view, HTTPS is just some other, completely different, unknown protocol. It would be unsafe to follow the … Read more

How do you follow an HTTP Redirect in Node.js?

If all you want to do is follow redirects but still want to use the built-in HTTP and HTTPS modules, I suggest you use https://github.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects. yarn add follow-redirects npm install follow-redirects All you need to do is replace: var http = require(‘http’); with var http = require(‘follow-redirects’).http; … and all your requests will automatically follow … Read more