Is it seriously impossible to make an ajax request and have it *not* follow redirects, but instead give you back a response object telling you where the server wanted to redirect you to?
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It seems like the justification for fetch not doing this is that it can't be polyfilled which is just... baffling. We won't add this capability because it's not already possible today?
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AFAIK that is possible in `fetch` (assuming you're talking about JS).
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Ah I see, even though it allows to stop the redirection, it doesn't give you the URL. Yeah, that sounds annoying.https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/763 …
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Agreed. I’d much rather just have it fail or throw if the user agent doesn’t support not-automatically-redirecting. Let me at least try.
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I recently encountered this too, and ended up adding a special case to my fetch wrapper that checks the payload for a "redirect" key. Let a thousand duplicated reimplementations of HTTP bloom!
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