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Re:Observations running 2M headless sessions by mrskitch on Monday June 04, 2018 @09:22PM (#17234211)
You’d actually be surprised by the applications, I definitely was. Some I’ve seen:

- Screenshots

- PDF generation

- Functional tests

- Regression tests

- Scraping SPAs

- Crazy stuff like printing user-generated content for personalization products..

Re:Observations running 2M headless sessions by leetbulb on Monday June 04, 2018 @09:49PM (#17234336)
Among some of these, I've also built an internal microservice for analyzing URL redirect chains. Input a URL and it will provide me with all of the redirects it goes through and information for each one including method (html meta, 301, etc), timing, etc.
Re:Observations running 2M headless sessions by kwerk on Monday June 04, 2018 @10:22PM (#17234467)
I’ve done some hacky work redirect analysis but just the final url. Thought of open sourcing?
Re:Observations running 2M headless sessions by skinnymuch on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @10:41AM (#17238052)
Awesome! What did you use to go through the redirects? I’ve had issues with some browser automation only giving the final url.