useful-bronze
useful-bronze•2y ago

How to abort request if page is redirecting?

I've tried multiple different approaches but to no avail: 
page.on('response', async (response) => {
    if (Number(response.status()) === 301 || Number(response.status()) === 302) {
      // crawlerContext.request.cancel(); // not working
      // response.cancel() // not working
      
      // crawlerContext.request.abort(); // not working
      // response.abort() // not working
    }
}
page.on('response', async (response) => {
    if (Number(response.status()) === 301 || Number(response.status()) === 302) {
      // crawlerContext.request.cancel(); // not working
      // response.cancel() // not working
      
      // crawlerContext.request.abort(); // not working
      // response.abort() // not working
    }
}
1 Reply
ondro_k
ondro_k•2y ago
Hi, try this: (from stackoverflow): 
await page.route('**', async route => {
    const response = await route.fetch({maxRedirects: 0})
    if (Number(response.status()) === 301 || Number(response.status()) === 302) {
      ...
    }
})
await page.route('**', async route => {
    const response = await route.fetch({maxRedirects: 0})
    if (Number(response.status()) === 301 || Number(response.status()) === 302) {
      ...
    }
})
I think that, in your approach, when page.on('response', ...) is fired, the redirect has been already made, that's why you should use page.route - to catch it before it's sent.
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