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Is this a redirect or not?

I see the following page behavior:

After clicking on a ahref link /product-1, a page with url product-1 loads, and, after few seconds, the url changes to product-1?param=1.

This is definitely not a meta equiv redirects. It happens with a javascript, and there is no status code change - the status code remains 200, and my DevTools Network tab doesn't display the url switch from non-param to param version.

Should I consider this behavior as a redirect or not?

Solution

  • This would not be a traditional redirect, because.

    1. There is no HTTP status change.
    2. The addition of a param to the url is probably via JS
    3. There are no redirects in the network so it is only client side.

    It is more of a client side url manipulation and probably done with something like history.pushState() or replaceState