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Amit
Amit

Reputation: 703

Trying to send a GET request, getting 301 to the same address

I'm trying to send an HTTP GET request in C++ using sockets, and I'm getting in response a 301 Moved permently, but to the same address I've asked for!

Here is my GET request :

GET /watch?v=1cQh1ccqu8M HTTP/1.1
Host: www.youtube.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:29.0) Firefox/29.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language:en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4
Connection: keep-alive

All the \r\n are perfectly in place, because this GET request used to work for me not long ago, and I have not touched it since...

The response I'm getting from youtube :

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 11:04:10 GMT
Server: gwiseguy/2.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Expires: Tue, 27 Apr 1971 19:44:06 EST
Location: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cQh1ccqu8M
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block; report=https://www.google.com/appserve/security-bugs/log/youtube
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Length: 0
P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=151657&hl=en for more info."
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Alternate-Protocol: 80:quic,p=0.002

According to the page they tell me to check http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=151657&hl=en, it says I need to add some kind of cookies now?

I've allways send this request without sending any cookies, so I am a bit confused...

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1204

Answers (1)

Steffen Ullrich
Steffen Ullrich

Reputation: 123340

me: Was your original request really done with https and not plain http...

@Amit: No, I was connecting to `www.youtube.com', then I've sent the GET request

Then you should look more closely at the redirect:

Location: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cQh1ccqu8M

As you can see, this does redirect you to the same host, same page, but different protocol: you must use https instead of http.

Upvotes: 2

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