How can I use Selenium RC to verify our Server-Side-Redirects (301, 302)?

Question

We have a bunch of redirects in our Apache configuration. I would like to automate the testing of redirects with Selenium, which led me to some problems:

• Call an URL, but assert on the redirected page
• Check the URL of the browser after redirected
• Check Response Header, to determine the type of redirection (301, 302)

Maybe Selenium is not the best solution for this. Any other suggestions?

Answer 1

Selenium-RC has a traffic capture mode, defined as selenium.start("captureNetworkTraffic=true"); that will enable you to capture HTTP responses, including redirects and error codes.

Here is an excellent resource on how to capture and process/format this information once retrieved. It uses Python, though, but should give you a start.

For checking the URL of browser, you could use selenium.getLocation();

Answer 2

in python's implementation,

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
print driver.current_url

http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/api/py/webdriver_remote/selenium.webdriver.remote.webdriver.html#module-selenium.webdriver.remote.webdriver