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Redirect Inspector

Follows a URL's redirect chain one hop at a time and shows every step — source, destination, and status code (301/302/303/307/308) — plus warnings for redirect loops, excessive hop counts, and HTTP↔HTTPS scheme changes along the way. Useful for debugging broken redirects, auditing an old domain's migration, or checking an affiliate/ tracking link before you click it. Requires a live network request, made server-side. Nothing you inspect is logged or stored.

A note on scope

Follows up to 20 hops before giving up (most browsers stop around the same point). For safety, every hop is re-validated — a redirect can't be used to smuggle a request to localhost or a private/internal IP range after the first hop passed the check. For status code/response header/security header details on the final destination, use the HTTP Request/Response Inspector; for what each redirect status code actually means, see the HTTP Status Code Explorer.