python: stop redirect when click()

[stephen lukacs]

hello one and all,

perhaps you can give me some advice.  i basically load a home page using selenium and phantomJS under python 2.7.  then i search that page for a link and have selenium click on it using the click() method.  which properly runs the href and or javascript under the <a> tag and then goes to the final website for the click.

but i know that there is a redirect in that click and selenium takes me to the final page.  which if i were an end user that would be fine.  BUT i want to halt selenium at the redirect and view the current_url of the redirect.  how can i do that please?

thanx in advance and have a good day, lucas

p.s. here is my code snippet:

        dcap = dict(DesiredCapabilities.PHANTOMJS) 

        dcap['phantomjs.page.settings.userAgent'] = (user_agent)

        site = webdriver.PhantomJS(desired_capabilities=dcap) 

site.get('http://someurl.com')

print site.title

print site.current_url

print

elements = site.find_elements_by_xpath('//a')

for i, e in zip(range(len(elements)), elements):

if (e.get_attribute('outerHTML').find('sometexttofind') > -1):

print "%i: %s" % (i+1, e.get_attribute('outerHTML'))

break

e.click() #which runs the java script under the <a> link and goes to the proper page, but there is a redirect in there.

print site.title

print site.current_url

print

site.quit()