Reporting 301/302 redirects?

python79 · Post by **python79** » Tue May 30, 2006 11:21 am

We are currently using the free trial of Webinator and are interested in the ability to report upon 301/302 redirects as well as broken link errors. However, the trial walks that we have completed do not make any mention of URLs that contain redirects. Does Webinator have this functionality? We have used version 1 in the past and it was able to do so.

Thanks!

Post by **mark** » Tue May 30, 2006 11:50 am

Redirects aren't an error. They're just followed and the resulting page indexed. You can change max redirects to 0 to cause an error on redirect.

python79 · Post by **python79** » Tue May 30, 2006 12:41 pm

Thanks, I made that change and now it brings up "Too many redirections" when I crawl a site with redirects. Can it provide which type of redirect is being presented? This is what we are interested in.

Post by **mark** » Tue May 30, 2006 1:01 pm

It doesn't record/report the type of redirect. You can find out using the geturl tool that comes with Webinator.

geturl http://thesite/thepage | more

The first line will tell you which type.

Or you could modify dowalk to record the "httpcode" in the error message.