Why doesn't HTTPoison return the HTML of the website?

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When I run this:

HTTPoison.get! "www.example.com"

I get an %HTTPoison.Response struct which contains the body, headers and the status code. Normally the body should contain the actual response, but I almost always get an empty body, everything else in the response works fine. Here is what it looks like:

%HTTPoison.Response{
  body: "",
  headers: [
    {"Location",
     "http://megaplusredirection.tedata.net/VDSL-Redirection_90.html"},
    {"Connection", "close"}
  ],
  request: %HTTPoison.Request{ 
    body: "",
    headers: [],
    method: :get,
    options: [],
    params: %{},
    url: "http://www.example.com"
  },
  request_url: "http://www.example.com",
  status_code: 307

Notice how the body is an empty string.

Is this how HTTPoison is supposed to work or am I doing something wrong ?

Thanks in advance guys

2

It’s because the 307 status, that means the site has been temporary redirected to other location. The new location can be found in headers, here is http://megaplusredirection.tedata.net/VDSL-Redirection_90.html.

You can run HTTPosion.get! again to fetch data from the new location, or try to use [follow_redirect: true] option like this post: HTTPoison : Get body of redirected location target - #5 by Nicolas

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Thanks a lot, I feel so stupid for not noticing that the status code, thanks so much.