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http.js not working with marketwatch urls

From Nigel Reed@VERT to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Mon Feb 15 23:18:43 2021

open https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/220

Sample URL: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B21005575-02D4-D4B5-4572-D28A72DE3461%7D&siteid=rss&rss=1

Produced 301
Location: https://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B21005575-02D4-D4B5-4572-D28A72DE3461%7D&siteid=rss&rss=1

Which produced 301
location: /story/guid/21005575-02d4-d4b5-4572-d28a72de3461?siteid=rss&rss=1

Which produced 301
location: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-new-york-stock-exchange-president-says-the-stock-market-is-not-a-casino-heres-what-academic-research-says-11613396805

which produced 301
Location: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-new-york-stock-exchange-president-says-the-stock-market-is-not-a-casino-heres-what-academic-research-says-11613396805

Which finally gives me a 200.

The code I'm using is

var req = new HTTPRequest();
req.follow_redirects=10;
response = req.Get(url);
writeln("RC: "+req.response_code);
writeln("RS: "+req.response_status);
writeln(response);

and RC is giving me a 404 and can't figure why.

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From Deuc¿@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Mon Feb 15 23:28:59 2021

https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/220#note_1598

How are the URLs "producing" 301s if not via http.js? The description says it ends up with a 200, but then you say you get a 404... it's certainly not both.

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From Nigel Reed@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Mon Feb 15 23:34:40 2021

https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/220#note_1599

When I run the script the output from the section above is:

Working on http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B0F3C2883-C89D-472A-9721-7859431504DF%7D&siteid=rss&rss=1
RC: 404
RS: undefined

So, you tell me. If I manually go through the redirects, I get to the right place. If I use my script that eventually uses http.js then I get a 404.

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From Deuc¿@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Mon Feb 15 23:36:35 2021

https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/220#note_1600

So how are you getting 301s? How are you "manually" going through the requests?

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From Nigel Reed@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Mon Feb 15 23:41:35 2021

https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/220#note_1601

Using the browser debugger. ![image](/uploads/6c729cf0b48da9fed5437d398d6688f2/image.png)

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From Deuc¿@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Mon Feb 15 23:50:01 2021

https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/220#note_1602

So, a bit of feedback... in the description, tell us what is happening. If you want to add colour, make it clear what you're actually doing.

Also, it would be nice if when you include a script it is complete, works, and shows the problem (ie: load http.js and sets the url).

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From Deuc¿@VERT to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Mon Feb 15 23:51:06 2021

close https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/220

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