how to handle redirects

[HarryPotter 9]

hello!

 

don't know how to handle redirects.

 

scenario:

- there is a list of urls

- the bot navigates to the urls

- if page loads fine, then mark site as "okay" and navigate to next url

 

the problem is, some of these urls are redirected...

 

example...

 

url 1 -> redirect #1 -> redirect #2 -> redirect #3 -> final url

 

right now my code looks at redirect #1 and sees it loading fine, then marks the site as "okay"... but what i really want is to see if the final url is loading "okay"

 

i have:

 

    navigate(#link, "Wait")
   wait(2)
   wait for browser event("Everything Loaded", "")

 

but it seems i still can't guarantee it to wait for final url to load and check that one...

 

any insights?

 

 

Thanks!!!

[Legend 181]

Every time you load a site you can store the URL into a variable, then after it loads store the (maybe) new url in a variable and then compare the two... if they are different you have a redirect and you can load the final url and check it...

 

Or something like that... http://ubotstudio.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/blink.gif

[Legend 181]

post duplicated itself...

 

bad bot!! http://ubotstudio.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif

[malefic 48]

If you don't mind using 3rd party sites, look at http://www.internetofficer.com/seo-tool/redirect-check/

 

May be worth asking for an enhancement to Ubot asking for something to read HTTP headers and detect the 301 part.

[VaultBoss 310]

Every time you load a site you can store the URL into a variable, then after it loads store the (maybe) new url in a variable and then compare the two... if they are different you have a redirect and you can load the final url and check it...

 

Quick Q .. how do I scrape the actual URL from the browser, after the redirect?

 

In other words, I navigate to a url I give UBot, but that website has an internal redirect and instead of the url I gave it in the beginning, I end up on a different URL.

How do I find what is that URL?

 

Any idea?

 

Thanks in advance,

Steve

[VaultBoss 310]

Quick Q .. how do I scrape the actual URL from the browser, after the redirect?

 

In other words, I navigate to a url I give UBot, but that website has an internal redirect and instead of the url I gave it in the beginning, I end up on a different URL.

How do I find what is that URL?

 

Any idea?

 

Thanks in advance,

Steve

 

Nevermind, I found the $url

[Kreatus (Ubot Ninja) 422]

Its called $url. You can do something like this:

if($not($contains($url, "yourdomainname.com"))) {
   then {
       navigate("http://www.yourdomainname.com/", "Wait")
   }
   else {
   }
}