[MarkLogic Dev General] xdmp:http-get with auto-follow redirect

[Micah Dubinko]

It may be a good idea to count how many redirect cycles you've followed and give up at some point. :-)

-m

On Mar 4, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Geert Josten wrote:

> Hi Steve,
> 
> You will have to follow the redirect yourself, but wrapping the function in a function of your own shouldn't be difficult. Something like the following should most likely do:
> 
> declare namespace http = "xdmp:http";
> 
> declare function local:http-get($url as xs:string) as item()* {
>  let $response := xdmp:http-get($url)
>  let $header := $response[1]
>  let $body := $response[2]
>  return
>    if (number($header/http:response/http:code) = 301) then
>      local:http-get($header/http:response/http:headers/http:location)
>    else
>      $body
> }
> 
> Note: haven't tested, I'm not sure the redirect url is returned as a location header, but that is what I remember..
> 
> Kind regards,
> Geert
> 
>> 
> 
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>> From: general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com
>> [mailto:general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of spig
>> Sent: donderdag 4 maart 2010 21:00
>> To: general at developer.marklogic.com
>> Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] xdmp:http-get with
>> auto-follow redirect
>> 
>> When I use xdmp:http-get I sometimes get a Redirect (301). Is
>> there a way to have xdmp:http-get automatically follow these
>> redirects? or do I need to create my own structure around
>> this to follow the redirects?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Steve Spigarelli
>> 
>> 
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