Response: redirected 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 redirected read-only property of the Response interface indicates whether or not the response is the result of a request you made which was redirected.

Note: Checking redirected to prevent redirects is not recommended, because by the time a response is received, the redirect has already happened, and you may have sent the request to an unintended destination, potentially sending sensitive information. Instead, you should do the filtering when you call fetch(). See the example Disallowing redirects, which shows this being done.

Value

A boolean value which is true if the response indicates that your request was redirected.

Examples

Detecting redirects

Checking to see if the response comes from a redirected request is as simple as checking this flag on the Response object. In the code below, a textual message is inserted into an element when a redirect occurred during the fetch operation. Note, however, that this isn't as safe as outright rejecting redirects if they're unexpected, as described under Disallowing redirects below.

The url property returns the final URL after redirects.

fetch("awesome-picture.jpg")
  .then((response) => {
    const elem = document.getElementById("warning-message-box");
    elem.textContent = response.redirected ? "Unexpected redirect" : "";
    // final url obtained after redirects
    console.log(response.url);
    return response.blob();
  })
  .then((imageBlob) => {
    const imgObjectURL = URL.createObjectURL(imageBlob);
    document.getElementById("img-element-id").src = imgObjectURL;
  });

Disallowing redirects

Checking redirected is a bad way to prevent redirects, because the redirect has already happened. Instead, you should set the redirect mode to "error" in the options parameter when calling fetch(), like this:

fetch("awesome-picture.jpg", { redirect: "error" })
  .then((response) => response.blob())
  .then((imageBlob) => {
    const imgObjectURL = URL.createObjectURL(imageBlob);
    document.getElementById("img-element-id").src = imgObjectURL;
  });

Specifications

Specification
Fetch # ref-for-dom-response-redirected①