[thelist] Viewing content of HTML redirect

[kasimir-k]

> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Julian Rickards
> <julian.rickards at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  If you go to http://ontario.ca/mininglands, there seems to be a bit of a
>>  pause as the redirect takes you to
>>  http://www.mndm.gov.on.ca/mndm/mines/lands/default_e.asp. It is my belief
>>  that the redirect is an HTML redirect (and not a server-based one) because
>>  of the pause.
>>
>>  Is there anyway of viewing the redirect page before it quickly disappears?

Eduardo Kienetz scribeva in 2008-03-24 19:46:
> If you are on Linux you can run: lynx -dump -source
> http://ontario.ca/mininglands

Which actually doesn't show the original URL's source, but the soure of 
http://www.keywords.gov.on.ca/mbs/keywords/keywords.nsf/redirect?readform&kywrd=mininglands 
where http://ontario.ca/mininglands directs to.

Using lynx you can get the unredirected source with:
lynx -noredir -source http://ontario.ca/mininglands

And to see the HTTP headers making the redirection you'd:
lynx -source -head http://ontario.ca/mininglands

.k