Unclear on how to follow redirects when wrapping HTTPoison.Base

[patrickbrown-dev]

I've been banging my head on this for a while, is it possible?

I'll make a PR with some docs on how to do it in the README once I know how, as I'm sure other people are wondering the same.

Thanks!

[edgurgel]

Oh hey! Yeah we should probably support a direct option instead of passing this through the hackney keyword. Here's an example on how to do it:

https://github.com/edgurgel/httpoison/blob/master/test/httpoison_test.exs#L67-L75

[fairbairn]

Can't quite tell how to get the location value back after the redirect. Is it possible to access the hackney.location value from the response object returned after it get request has occurred with hackney value of [ follow_redirect: true ] ?

[edgurgel]

Hi @fairbairn, I think what you are looking for is being discussed here: #90 (comment)

[sgnl]

here's a reference to following redirects in tests:

httpoison/test/httpoison_test.exs

Lines 89 to 103 in 3481d56

	test "option follow redirect absolute url" do
	assert_response(
	HTTPoison.get(
	"http://localhost:8080/redirect-to?url=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost:8080%2Fget",
	[],
	follow_redirect: true
	)
	)
	end
	test "option follow redirect relative url" do
	assert_response(
	HTTPoison.get("http://localhost:8080/relative-redirect/1", [], follow_redirect: true)
	)
	end

the previous link by @edgurgel uses master so the link is outdated. The one I have here uses a blob commit hash instead of branch name