# Redirect Chain Checker

Follow a URL through every redirect to where it lands: each hop's status code, what changed, how long it took, and the loops, downgrades and temporary moves to fix.

Canonical: https://tamperbox.dev/redirect-checker

Reviewed: 2026-10-16

## Capabilities and processing

Enter a URL, or paste the output of `curl -sIL`. Without `http://` or `https://`, the check starts at `http://`, so the redirect to HTTPS is part of the chain. Our server requests each hop itself, up to 15, without cookies, and returns each status code, Location header, response headers and time to the first byte. Pasted curl output is read in your browser.

Each hop shows what changed from the one before (to HTTPS, adding or dropping www, a trailing slash, a new path) with the changed part marked. Loops, drops from HTTPS to plain HTTP, temporary codes on permanent moves, chains of more than one hop and chains that end in an error are flagged.

## Example workflow

The sample shop goes from `http://harbor-supply.example` to HTTPS and then to www in two hops, so links should point at the final address. Break it shows a loop, a five-request chain, an HTTPS to HTTP drop, a chain that ends at a 404, a chain that never stops and a host that does not exist.

## Limits and interpretation

Only HTTP redirects are followed; a meta refresh or a script redirect inside a page is not. Cookies set along the way are not sent back, so sites that redirect by cookie or by location may behave differently in a browser. Times are measured from our server. Nothing is stored.

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