How can I get a intermediate URL from a redirect chain from Selenium using Python?

[zhz shi]

Hi all,

This is just a copy of question from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35592602/how-can-i-get-a-intermediate-url-from-a-redirect-chain-from-selenium-using-pytho:

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I'm using Selenium with Python API and Firefox to do some automatic stuff, and here's my problem: Submit a form on original page, let's say on address a.com I'm redirected to b.com/some/path?arg=value And immediately I'm redirected again to the final address c.com So is there a way to get the intermediate redirect URL b.com/some/path?arg=value with Selenium Python API? I tried driver.current_url but when the browser is on b.com, seems it's still loading and the result only returned once the final address c.com is finished loading. Another question is that is there a way to add some event handlers to Selenium for like URL-change? Phantomjs has the capacity but I'm not sure for Selenium.

Can anybody help me on this? Thanks in advance :-)

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

You can try getting this information by plugging in a proxy server such as BrowserMob Proxy [ https://github.com/lightbody/browsermob-proxy ]

AFAIK there is no way to hook in event handlers into Selenium because, the browser doesn't let you do that and Selenium WebDriver tries mimicking a real user's experience when interacting with a web page using a browser.

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[zhz shi]

Thanks Krishnan, I'll have a look at it.

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

I also added a few more details to your query on StackOverFlow. Please take a look

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Krishnan Mahadevan

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