How to find the request-URL from inside Greasemonkey's GM_xmlhttpRequest "onload" callback in case of 302 redirect?

Question

I have a GM_xmlhttpReqeust function setup as follows (simplified version) in my Greasemonkey script.

  GM_xmlhttpRequest({
    synchronous: false,
    method: "HEAD",
    url: "http://www.example1.com",
    onload: function(response){console.debug(url);},
  });

• GM_xmlhttpReqeust is called in asynchronous mode in my code.

• Once accessed, http://www.example1.com does a 302 redirect to http://www.example2.com

• I would like to access the value of the original url parameter (http://www.example1.com) inside onload callback function.

• As per GM_xmlhttpReqeust documentation, http://www.example2.com can be found in response.finalUrl inside onload callback.

Could someone please point me to the proper Greasemonkey/JavaScript way?

Answer 1

The response passed to onload is an object with these key properties:

• readyState
• responseHeaders
• responseText
• status
• statusText
• finalUrl

You want finalUrl, you get it like:

GM_xmlhttpRequest ( {
    synchronous:    false,
    method:         "HEAD",
    url:            "http://www.google.com",
    onload:         function (response) {
        console.debug (response.finalUrl);
    }
} );

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Update for revised/clarified question:

In order to get/know the originally requested URL, you must call GM_xmlhttpRequest() in a closure. Like so:

var origURL = "http://www.google.com";

(function (targURL) {
    GM_xmlhttpRequest ( {
        synchronous:    false,
        method:         "HEAD",
        url:            targURL,
        onload:         function (response) {
            console.log ("orig URL: ", targURL);
            console.log ("final URL: ", response.finalUrl);
        }
    } );
} ) (origURL);

Answer 2

I got a stupid solution below, I hope it will work.

GM_xmlhttpRequest ( {
    synchronous:    false,
    method:         "HEAD",
    url:            "http://www.google.com",
    onload:         function (response) {
        console.debug (this.url);
    }
} );

Answer 3

referring to

http://userscripts-mirror.org/topics/51161

Firstly you need:

var method = this;
  var oldargs = [].slice.call( arguments, 1 );
  return function () {
    var newargs = [].slice.call( arguments );
    return method.apply( thisObject, oldargs.concat( newargs ));
  };
}

Then you go, similar way...