fetch and redirects http 302

 

interesting learning when using fetch and receiving a redirect response

the browser will automatically follow a 301, 302 redirect from a fetch ajax call by default to the Location in the response header

you can change the fetch redirect property to redirect:'manual' (so you can handle manually) but fetch does not provide a value in response status even tho the http response is 302 (why not?)

redirect:'error' just throws error and there’s no way to check the response status code to know if it's a redicrect or some other kind of error

I think this is a gap in fetch, if handling manually (redirect:'manual') then the status code should be available to check