Werkzeug(Flask) response with redirect not working

Question

I'm building a simple Flask application and I want to return redirect response. Also, I want to maintain total control over headers.

This is what I've got so far:

from flask import Flask
from werkzeug.wrappers import Response

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/toexample')
def to_example():

    headers = {
            'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:39.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/39.0',
            'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
            'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.5',
            'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate',
    }

    return Response('www.example.com', status_code=302, headers=headers)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(debug=True)

I get an error:

TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'status_code'

Ok, it looks like status_code doesn't exist on __init__(), but what is the right way of doing this?

What I ultimately want is a link that a user would click but again, I want to maintain control over headers(Connection, Cookies, Referer, etc.)

Answer 1

This does the trick for me:

from flask import Flask, redirect

app = Flask(__name__)


@app.route('/toexample')
def to_example():
    response = redirect("http://www.example.com", code=302)
    headers = dict(response.headers)
    headers.update({'X-Custom-Header1': 'value1', 'X-Custom-Header2': 'value2'})
    response.headers = headers
    return response

This works for me on Flask v0.10.1. Cheers!