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Request: redirect property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨March 2017⁩.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The redirect read-only property of the Request interface contains the mode for how redirects are handled.

Value

A RequestRedirect enum value, which can be one the following strings:

  • follow
  • error
  • manual

If not specified when the request is created, it takes the default value of follow.

Examples

In the following snippet, we create a new request using the Request() constructor (for an image file in the same directory as the script), then save the request redirect value in a variable:

const myRequest = new Request("flowers.jpg");
const myCred = myRequest.redirect;

Specifications

Specification
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# ref-for-dom-request-redirect②>

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
redirect 46 14 43 33 10.1 46 43 33 10.3 5.0 46 10.3

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Request/redirect