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

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See also