Tracking chained redirection about requests

[jgorset]

I'm +1 on this, though I suggest the entire response object is made available so one can inspect their headers retrospectively.

>> response = requests.get('http://example.org/redirect.html')
>> response.redirects
>> [<Response [301]>, <Response [301]>, <Response [301]>]

[esaurito]

I agree with you jgorset. Is better to have the entire response object

[kennethreitz]

This is a good idea. I think a good place for would be Response.history as a property.

>>> r = requests.get('http://301x3')
>>> r.history
[<Response [301]>, <Response [301]>, <Response [301]>]

These response objects wouldn't contain any history themselves.

At the moment, all of the redirection is coming strait from urllib2 transparently. We'd have to write a custom HTTPRedirectHandler.

Reference: http://diveintopython.org/http_web_services/redirects.html

[jgorset]

Yes, Response.history would be perfect.

[chmullig]

+1 on this. I wrote a gnarly RedirectHandler for a work project that did something similar. It's not horrible, but not much fun either.

[kennethreitz]

v0.4.0 was just released, which implements this. Enjoy :)

[jgorset]

Nice work, @kennethreitz!

[esaurito]

Thanks @kennethreitz!