Lots of sites especially have broken www -> root domain redirects, and http -> https redirects. Often these redirects aren’t covered by your CI tests either.
The article is good for one-off debugging (curl is my personal favorite). For continuous monitoring, we at Heii On-Call just last week released website monitoring to assert an HTTP response status code plus Location header [1], and have some best practices for redirect monitoring for anyone with a website which will be published next week.
FYI these features were requested by a user who signed up from HN a few weeks ago and wanted to monitor these redirects in addition to their homepage. Hope that helps.
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Lots of sites especially have broken www -> root domain redirects, and http -> https redirects. Often these redirects aren’t covered by your CI tests either.
The article is good for one-off debugging (curl is my personal favorite). For continuous monitoring, we at Heii On-Call just last week released website monitoring to assert an HTTP response status code plus Location header [1], and have some best practices for redirect monitoring for anyone with a website which will be published next week.
FYI these features were requested by a user who signed up from HN a few weeks ago and wanted to monitor these redirects in addition to their homepage. Hope that helps.
[1] https://heiioncall.com/blog/your-probes-your-rules-expected-...