What is the best way to assert redirections in Selenium?

Question

I am writing a selenium test and I need to assert that the page is redirected. How should I verify this? What would be the best way?

I am using PHPUnit and the PHPUnit_Extensions_SeleniumTestCase.

Answer 1

assertLocationEquals - Reports an error if the current location is not equal to the given $location.

$this->assertLocationEquals($someNewUrl);

Answer 2

I might also add a

$this->selenium->waitForPageToLoad("30000");

or if you're really paranoid, a

sleep(1);

In between the page's call to redirect and the check to see that the new URL loaded. That should help serve as a buffer in the event of a slightly slower web server response.