How to prevent ajax requests to follow redirects using jQuery

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I find your question interesting, but the problem in whole seems me more a misunderstanding. At least I’ll try to explain my understanding of the problem.

The silent (transparent) redirection is the part of XMLHttpRequest specification (see here especially the words “… transparently follow the redirect …”). The standard mention only that the user agent (the web browser) can prevent or notify of certain kinds of automatic redirections, but it’s not a part of XMLHttpRequest. It’s the part of HTTP client configuration (OS configuration) or the web browser configuration. So jQuery.ajax can’t have any option where you can prevent redirection.

You can see that HTTP redirection is the part of HTTP protocol and not a part of XMLHttpRequest. So it’s on the another level of abstraction or the network stack. For example the data from the XMLHttpRequest can be retrieved from the HTTP proxy or from the local browser cache, and it’s the part of HTTP protocol. Mostly the server which provide the data and not the client can influence on caching.

You can compare the requirement from your question with the requirement to prevent changing of IP address of the web server or the changing of the IP route during the communication. All the things can be interesting in some scenarios, but there are parts of another level of the communication stack and can’t be managed by jQuery.ajax or XMLHttpRequest.

The XMLHttpRequest standard say that the client configuration can have options which prevent redirection. In case of “Microsoft world”, which I better know, you can look at WinHttpSetOption function which can be used to set WINHTTP_OPTION_DISABLE_FEATURE option with the WINHTTP_DISABLE_REDIRECTS value. Another way are the usage of WINHTTP_OPTION_REDIRECT_POLICY option with the WINHTTP_OPTION_REDIRECT_POLICY_NEVER value. One more feature which one can use in Windows is the WinHttpSetStatusCallback function which can set callback function received some notifications like WINHTTP_CALLBACK_FLAG_REDIRECT.

So it’s do possible to implement your requirements in general, but the solution will be probably not independent from the operation system or the web browser and be not on the level of jQuery.ajax or XMLHttpRequest.

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