Remote_file resource set maximum number of re-directs to zero

Chef Infra (archive)
1

been trying to implement the below wget download command using chef remote_file resource. But I couldn't find a way to avoid the re-directions.

wget -N --max-redirect=0 http://www.someurl.com/file.zip

The --max-redirect=0 flag in wget makes sure that there isn't any redirection.

The download url is sometimes redirected to ISP bill reminder page. And chef remote_file resource downloads this bill reminder html page as a zip file.

I can just add the command to a execute resource by wrapping it within

command "wget -N --max-redirect=0 http://www.someurl.com/file.zip"

But is there any chef native way of setting redirection to zero or false without the use of ruby's open_uri or net ?

My chef recipe is

remote_file "#{node['download-zip-path']}/#{zip}" do
    source "http://www.someurl.com/#{zip}"
    action :create
    notifies :run, 'execute[unzip_file]', :delayed
end
2

Since remote_file resource doesn't handle the redirects, I had make use of a ruby_block that uses Down gem.

ruby_block 'download_openvpn_zip' do
	block do 
		attempt = 2
		begin
			retries ||= 0
			tempfile = Down::NetHttp.download("http://www.someurl.com/#{zip},max_redirects: 0)
			FileUtils.mv tempfile.path, "#{node['openvpn-conf-path']}/#{tempfile.original_filename}"
			FileUtils.chmod 0644, "#{node['openvpn-conf-path']}/#{tempfile.original_filename}"
		rescue Down::TooManyRedirects => e
			puts "\n \t ERROR: #{e.message}"
			puts "\n \t Unable to download the file from the url "
			puts "\n \t Tried downloading #{retries+1} times"
			retry if (retries += 1) < 1
		end	
	end
	action :run
	notifies :run, 'execute[unzip_file]', :delayed
end