Sending a 301/302 redirect from a Python CGI script

Question

I keep finding answers on how to read a redirect from an HTTP client response out of Python, but I can't figure out how to send a 301 or 302 redirect back to the client. Seems this should work, but I always get a 200 response before the body:

print("Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\n")
print("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently")
print("Location:", "https://www.google.com/")

The equivalent PHP code would simply be:

// Redirect the browser to Google
header("Location: https://www.google.com/", true, 301);

What libraries are you using? Python is more "generally general-purpose" than PHP and doesn't assume it's running as a web service. — ChrisGPT was on strike, Feb 15 '20 at 14:20
At the time of this post, I was really using no libraries or frameworks. this is just plain jane CGI, not even WSGI, lol — John Heyer, Nov 08 '22 at 03:51

codnodder · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-15T17:15:09.610

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In it's simplest form, with no external libraries, you can simply output straight HTTP:

print('''Status: 301 Redirect
Location: {url}
Content-Type: text/html

Moved permanently to <a href="{url}">{url}</a>
'''.format(url='https://www.google.com/'))

If you are using a library or framework there are likely better approaches.

edited Feb 15 '20 at 17:15

answered Feb 15 '20 at 17:09

codnodder

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