HTTP headers / response header

Location

Location: https://api.example.com/v1/users/4521

What it does

Where to go next: the redirect target on 3xx responses, or the URL of the freshly created resource on 201.

The gotcha

Relative Locations are legal and clients must resolve them against the request URL — hand-rolled redirect followers often get this wrong.

Debugging headers on a phone

The fastest way to see what Location is actually doing is to send the request and read both sides raw — ReqPad shows auto-generated and custom headers for every request, on all six protocols, with history. Related references: status codes · WWW-Authenticate · Content-Encoding · Transfer-Encoding · ETag · Last-Modified · Expires

Inspect Location on a live request.

Build the request, send it, read raw headers and timing — from your iPhone. Free to start.