Server load balancing now also supports checking HTTP redirects and setting the maximum number of redirects when 300-level return codes are received.

You can set http-max-redirects in the range 0 to 5. The default value is 0 which means do not check redirects, just assume they are available. This is how redirects functioned previously. When you set this option to 1 or more, the FortiGate unit will check up to 5 redirect URLs, until it finds one that is active. Traffic is then re-directed to the first active URL that is found.

Use the following command to check up to 3 redirects: