How do you follow an HTTP Redirect in Node.js?

If all you want to do is follow redirects but still want to use the built-in HTTP and HTTPS modules, I suggest you use https://github.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects.

yarn add follow-redirects
npm install follow-redirects

All you need to do is replace:

var http = require('http');

with

var http = require('follow-redirects').http;

... and all your requests will automatically follow redirects.

With TypeScript you can also install the types

npm install @types/follow-redirects

and then use

import { http, https } from 'follow-redirects';

Disclosure: I wrote this module.

Make another request based on response.headers.location:

      const request = function(url) {
        lib.get(url, (response) => {
          var body = [];
          if (response.statusCode == 302) {
            body = [];
            request(response.headers.location);
          } else {
            response.on("data", /*...*/);
            response.on("end", /*...*/);
          };
        } ).on("error", /*...*/);
      };
      request(url);

Is there a wrapper module on top of the http to more easily handle processing http responses from a node application?

request

Redirection logic in request