Get redirected URL from Postman

Question

I'm currently migrating my old website to a new one and I have just created some url redirect rules to redirect old links to their pages on the new website.

In order to test these redirect rules I'm using Postman but I can't find any way of getting the redirected url from Postman's scripts documentation. REDIRECTED_URL is the url after being processed by the redirect rule.

Here is my current test:

var root_url = postman.getEnvironmentVariable('root_url');
var oldurl = root_url + postman.getEnvironmentVariable('old_page');
var newurl = root_url + postman.getEnvironmentVariable('new_page');

if (REDIRECTED_URL == newurl)
{
    tests[oldurl + " redirected"] = true;
}
else
{
    tests[oldurl + " failed to redirect"] = false;
}

Is there a way to test this in postman or should I be using another application?

Answer 1

1. Switch off the setting Automatically follow redirects in Postman.
2. Do a request to example.com/test-page/test01
3. In the test tab, check if the https status code and the re-direct header are correct:

pm.test("Status Code is 301", function () {
    pm.response.to.have.status(301);
});

pm.test("Location-header exists", function () {
    pm.expect(postman.getResponseHeader("Location")).to.eq("example.com/tests/test01");
});