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redirectURL is not matching location response header

See original GitHub issue

According to http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/har-12-spec/

redirectURL [string] - Redirection target URL from the Location response header.

Example:

$ curl http://github.com/ -I
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Content-length: 0
Location: https://github.com/
Connection: close

$ chrome-har-capturer http://github.com/
...
               "request": {
                    "method": "GET",
                    "url": "http://github.com/",
                    "httpVersion": "http/1.1",
                    "cookies": [],
                    "headers": [
                        {
                            "name": "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests",
                            "value": "1"
                        },
                        {
                            "name": "User-Agent",
                            "value": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) HeadlessChrome Safari/537.36"
                        }
                    ],
                    "queryString": [],
                    "headersSize": 178,
                    "bodySize": -1
                },
                "response": {
                    "status": 307,
                    "statusText": "Internal Redirect",
                    "httpVersion": "http/1.1",
                    "cookies": [],
                    "headers": [
                        {
                            "name": "Location",
                            "value": "https://github.com/"
                        },
                        {
                            "name": "Non-Authoritative-Reason",
                            "value": "HSTS"
                        }
                    ],
                    "redirectURL": "",
                    "headersSize": 97,
                    "bodySize": 0,
                    "_transferSize": 97,
                    "content": {
                        "size": 0,
                        "mimeType": "",
                        "compression": 0
                    }
                },
...

From Chrome (Save as HAR):
...
        "request": {
          "method": "GET",
          "url": "http://github.com/",
          "httpVersion": "unknown",
          "headers": [
            {
              "name": "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests",
              "value": "1"
            },
            {
              "name": "User-Agent",
              "value": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.44 Safari/537.36"
            }
          ],
          "queryString": [],
          "cookies": [],
          "headersSize": -1,
          "bodySize": 0
        },
        "response": {
          "status": 307,
          "statusText": "Internal Redirect",
          "httpVersion": "unknown",
          "headers": [
            {
              "name": "Location",
              "value": "https://github.com/"
            },
            {
              "name": "Non-Authoritative-Reason",
              "value": "Delegate"
            }
          ],
          "cookies": [],
          "content": {
            "size": 0,
            "mimeType": "x-unknown"
          },
          "redirectURL": "https://github.com/",
          "headersSize": -1,
          "bodySize": -1,
          "_transferSize": 0
        },
...

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 7 years ago
Comments:7 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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cyrus-andcommented, Nov 18, 2016

It should work now, I thought headers were normalised by Chrome.

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cyrus-andcommented, Nov 18, 2016

I thought I did this… Done! Thanks for the reminder.

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