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Cannot fulfill with redirect status: ${response.status}

Error message

Cannot fulfill with redirect status: ${response.status}

What it means

Error "Cannot fulfill with redirect status: ${response.status}" thrown in microsoft/playwright.

Source

Thrown at packages/playwright-core/src/server/webkit/webview/wvInterceptableRequest.ts:130

  private readonly _session: WVSession;
  private readonly _requestId: string;

  constructor(session: WVSession, requestId: string) {
    this._session = session;
    this._requestId = requestId;
  }

  async abort(errorCode: string) {
    const errorType = errorReasons[errorCode];
    assert(errorType, 'Unknown error code: ' + errorCode);
    // In certain cases, protocol will return error if the request was already canceled
    // or the page was closed. We should tolerate these errors.
    await this._session.sendMayFail('Network.interceptRequestWithError', { requestId: this._requestId, errorType });
  }

  async fulfill(response: types.NormalizedFulfillResponse) {
    if (300 <= response.status && response.status < 400)
      throw new Error('Cannot fulfill with redirect status: ' + response.status);

    // In certain cases, protocol will return error if the request was already canceled
    // or the page was closed. We should tolerate these errors.
    let mimeType = response.isBase64 ? 'application/octet-stream' : 'text/plain';
    const headers = headersArrayToObject(response.headers, true /* lowerCase */);
    const contentType = headers['content-type'];
    if (contentType)
      mimeType = contentType.split(';')[0].trim();

    await this._session.sendMayFail('Network.interceptRequestWithResponse', {
      requestId: this._requestId,
      status: response.status,
      statusText: network.statusText(response.status),
      mimeType,
      headers,
      base64Encoded: response.isBase64,
      content: response.body
    });

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/playwright-core/src/server/webkit/webview/wvInterceptableRequest.ts:130 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

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