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hey
hey

Reputation: 7819

How to get the current URL in http.go?

I'm using http.NewRequest to make several http requests ( obviously ). Now I need to make request and extract some query strings from the final URL ( there is a redirect ) .

So the question is how can I find the URL (if the final URL if the client was redirected ) ? There is no such field in Response.

Please note that I don't need to stop the redirect... only to find what's the URL after request

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5091

Answers (2)

hey
hey

Reputation: 7819

Although @JimB actually answered the question I'm posting this as it may help someone. I've used an anonymous function. Perhaps could be done better using a closures but I didn't figured it out yet how closures actually work.

req, err = http.NewRequest("GET", URL, nil)
cl := http.Client{}
var lastUrlQuery string
cl.CheckRedirect = func(req *http.Request, via []*http.Request) error {

    if len(via) > 10 {
        return errors.New("too many redirects")
    }
    lastUrlQuery = req.URL.RequestURI()
    return nil
}
resp, err := cl.Do(req)
if err != nil {
    log.Fatal(err)
}
fmt.Printf("last url query is %v", lastUrlQuery)

Upvotes: 3

JimB
JimB

Reputation: 109332

You add a callback to http.Client.CheckRedirect

    // CheckRedirect specifies the policy for handling redirects.
    // If CheckRedirect is not nil, the client calls it before
    // following an HTTP redirect. The arguments req and via are
    // the upcoming request and the requests made already, oldest
    // first. If CheckRedirect returns an error, the Client's Get
    // method returns both the previous Response and
    // CheckRedirect's error (wrapped in a url.Error) instead of
    // issuing the Request req.
    //
    // If CheckRedirect is nil, the Client uses its default policy,
    // which is to stop after 10 consecutive requests.
    CheckRedirect func(req *Request, via []*Request) error

You can then inspect the new Request as they happen. Just be sure to institute some sort of limit to prevent redirect loops (as stated in the docs, the default aborts after 10).

Upvotes: 2

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