title: Ajax Redirection Handling
body: <p>I bumped into a situation I've never had to address before. I have a customer who needs to make an ajax request to a URL. For internal reasons, that URL redirects to another URL whose status code needs to be accessed. Is this kind of multi-request scenario handled natively by Ajax requests?</p>
  
  <p>A quick test using jQuery seems to handle the 302, do the redirection and return the content of the targeted page (I'll only need the status code in production, but the content is what "proves" the correct page is being accessed), but I can't find any indication that I can expect this to work universally. I don't know what, if any, library the client will use. Moreover, other clients are likely to use this same URL in the future and it needs to be handled the same way.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>