redirectTo does not work for me about chai-http HOT 5 CLOSED

By default it seems SuperAgent (which is what Chai-HTTP uses for requests) follows redirects, meanwhile .redirect and .redirectTo assert that the response has not followed any redirects.

In the new (upcoming) version of Chai-HTTP - you can run chai.request(app).get('/').redirects(0) to ensure SuperAgent doesn't ever follow any redirects, at which point the .redirect and .redirectTo tests should work.

It might be worth extending .redirect and .redirectTo to first check for a 3xx status code, but to also check if res.redirects exists and see if it contains the URL - basically completing the logic you have done manually.

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Updated to the latest version and used .redirects(0). Note that this is not in the documentation and i only got it to work because i read this issue again. Adding it to the docs should help new users find this easily.

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I'm going to re-open this @Guuz because you're right - something needs to change, be it docs or code.

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Thanks :)

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Checking res.redirects makes sense to me, since we bundle SuperAgent, but let's not depend on it. I use chai-http with request and had configured it with followRedirect: false.

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