How to determine status code of request

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How can I check the status code of a request? I want to check what kind of redirects were used to access a page.

For response objects I would use *response.status_code*

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 18 '12 at 15:25

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There is no such thing as a status code of a request. You can use HTTP referer instead[1] or have the links include an HTTP parameter that identifies the source (e.g., ?src=example.com)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer

answered Apr 18 '12 at 15:25

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@Richard, could you explain what you mean with "distinguish between different 3XX codes"? – schuppe Apr 19 '12 at 15:59

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 18 '12 at 15:11

I might be wrong but there is no such thing as incoming request status code, application doing requests in case of redirect gets 302 from initial request checks location and do another request. And history of incoming request in shape of thing like "traceroute" just don't exists in HTTP.

How to determine status code of request

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