Ruby detect redirections without downloading the page

Question

Is there a way to detect a redirection in Ruby ?

I just want to know if the link gets redirected, without downloading a page and checking for exceptions.

The faster it is, the better.

does this help [get-redirect-of-a-url-in-ruby](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5872210/get-redirect-of-a-url-in-ruby) — max pleaner, May 22 '17 at 18:13

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 22 '17 at 18:27

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response = nil
Net::HTTP.start('some.www.server', 80) {|http|
  response = http.head('/index.html')
}

head call gets just only the header and you can check the response code to detect the redirection.

answered May 22 '17 at 18:27

coffeebytes

I'm not sure if I am using it correctly or not but I keep getting socket error exceptions on most websites ( no matter what socket I input ) – Matthieu Raynaud de Fitte May 23 '17 at 09:12

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