follow-redirects

const { http, https } = require('follow-redirects'); const url = require('url'); // Example 1: Simple GET request with redirect following // Using a reliable test service for redirects http.get('http://httpbin.org/redirect/3', response => { console.log(`GET Status Code: ${response.statusCode}`); console.log(`GET Final URL: ${response.responseUrl}`); let data = ''; response.on('data', chunk => { data += chunk; }); response.on('end', () => { console.log('GET Response body length:', data.length); }); }).on('error', err => { console.error('GET Error:', err.message); }); // Example 2: POST request demonstrating global and per-request options // Setting global max redirects (default is 21) followRedirects.maxRedirects = 5; // Setting global max body length (default is 10MB) followRedirects.maxBodyLength = 1 * 1024 * 1024; // 1 MB const postOptions = url.parse('https://postman-echo.com/post'); postOptions.method = 'POST'; postOptions.headers = { 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'User-Agent': 'follow-redirects-example/1.0' }; // Override global maxRedirects for this specific POST request postOptions.maxRedirects = 2; const postData = JSON.stringify({ message: 'Hello from follow-redirects!', source: 'quickstart' }); const postReq = https.request(postOptions, response => { console.log(`POST Status Code: ${response.statusCode}`); console.log(`POST Final URL: ${response.responseUrl}`); let data = ''; response.on('data', chunk => { data += chunk; }); response.on('end', () => { console.log('POST Response body:', JSON.parse(data)); }); }).on('error', err => { console.error('POST Error:', err.message); }); postReq.write(postData); postReq.end();