Request: redirect property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2017.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The redirect read-only property of the Request interface contains the mode for how redirects are handled.

Value

A RequestRedirect enum value, which can be one the following strings:

  • follow
  • error
  • manual

If not specified when the request is created, it takes the default value of follow.

Examples

In the following snippet, we create a new request using the Request() constructor (for an image file in the same directory as the script), then save the request redirect value in a variable:

js
const myRequest = new Request("flowers.jpg");
const myCred = myRequest.redirect;

Specifications

Specification
Fetch
# ref-for-dom-request-redirect②

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile server
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
Bun
Deno
Node.js
redirect
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 46 (Release date: 2015-10-13)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 14 (Release date: 2016-08-02)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 43 (Release date: 2015-12-15)
footnote Full support
Opera – Full support
Opera 33 (Release date: 2015-10-27)
footnote Full support
Safari – Full support
Safari 10.1 (Release date: 2017-03-27)
footnote Full support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 46 (Release date: 2015-10-14)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – Full support
Firefox for Android 43 (Release date: 2015-12-15)
footnote Full support
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 33 (Release date: 2015-11-03)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 10.3 (Release date: 2017-03-27)
footnote Full support
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 5 (Release date: 2016-12-15)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 46 (Release date: 2015-10-14)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – Full support
WebView on iOS 10.3 (Release date: 2017-03-27)
footnote Full support
Bun – Full support
Bun 1 (Release date: 2023-09-08)
footnote Full support
Deno – Full support
Deno 1 (Release date: 2020-05-13)
footnote
footnote Fetching with a "manual" redirect mode does not result in a "opaqueredirect" response, but a regular response.
Node.js – Full support
Node.js 18 (Release date: 2022-04-19)
footnote Full support

Legend

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Full support
Full support
See implementation notes.

See also