Catch a Server Redirect's URL

Question

I have a URL

ex. www.siteA.com/?UGLY_KEY_12312432342SSDFSD

It then redirects you to:

www.siteB.com/?ANOTHER_UGLY_KEY_ASDASDFS2342342

What i need is some way to catch the redirect URL of siteB

I've tried JQuery $.ajax

and I am swamped with

No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource.

I am aware that CORS is the typical way to go, but it is impossible in my case.

Shouldn't this be easier security wise as it is a mere, GET?

$.ajax({
            type: "GET",
            url: "www.siteA.com/?UGLY_KEY_12312432342SSDFSD",

            dataType: "json",
            success: function (response, status, request) {

                    // data.redirect contains the string URL to redirect to
                alert(response.redirectUrl);


            }    

        }

you could use `jsonp` or a proxy script (for example php) to get around the restrictions http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2067472/what-is-jsonp-all-about — gherkins, Jan 15 '14 at 21:48
@MarkResølved FYI, thanks for your help..I've figured out an answer. — Pinch, Jan 20 '14 at 17:24

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 20 '14 at 14:59

I need to use a HttpWebRequest on the server side because of CORS Permission issues.

Here it is:

var httpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://www...");
httpWebRequest.ContentType = "text/json";
httpWebRequest.Method = "GET";
httpWebRequest.AllowAutoRedirect = false;
httpWebRequest.Timeout = 10000;
httpWebRequest.Accept = "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8";
httpWebRequest.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.63 Safari/537.36";

var httpResponse = (HttpWebResponse)httpWebRequest.GetResponse();

string THEREDIRECTURL = httpResponse.GetResponseHeader("Location");

Catch a Server Redirect's URL

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