Some questions on redirects for requests library

Question

I was trying redirects but the result isn't what I was exprecting and I was wondering why

When I request github.io, I get 301 in resp.history, but when I check r.is_redirect, it return False

headers = {"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.88 Safari/537.36"}


url = "https://github.io"
r = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(r.history)
for i in r.history:
    print(i.url)
print(r.is_redirect)

[out]:
    [<Response [301]>]    # r.history
    https://github.io/    # loop for r.history urls
    False                 # r.is_redirect

Also what is a 'prepared_request' in Requests, is it like the request.Request() obj in urllib? If so, when and why should I use it, since unlike urllib, we can pass in params and headers etc into request.get()

And, what is the difference between resp.url and resp.request.url? is resp.request.url the initial url I requested in get()? Then why I'm getting the redirected url https://pages.github.com/, with the above code, when I try print(r.request.url)

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65857816/some-questions-on-redirects-for-requests-library

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