200 Country specific redirects not behaving as expected, they change the URL in the browser address bar

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Hi there!

I’m trying to set up redirects to display different pages based on the visitor’s country, and I’d like to use a 200 redirect for this to avoid changing the URL in the browser address bar.

The redirects are working, however the URL is being changed.

Below is my _headers file (I’ve downloaded the deployed zip file and validated that _headers is correct and located at the root)

## Created with gatsby-plugin-netlify

/  /ORGuwgcsEyBle70Vwc5pK/  200!  Country=DE,AT
/store/  /21WtfNyaBXodsFEKRTw9Wz/finnish-store-test/  200!  Country=FI
/de/  /ORGuwgcsEyBle70Vwc5pK/de/  200!  Country=DE,AT
/de/  /2SMqg35tTUJuGgJjkcdBf1/de/  200!  Country=FI

I’m testing this by setting the nf_country cookie in my browser.

For example when visiting example.netlify.com/store with nf_country set to FI, I’m redirected to example.netlify.com/21WtfNyaBXodsFEKRTw9Wz/finnish-store-test/ as specified in the redirects but the new URL also shows in the browser address bar.

Thanks in advance for any assistance!

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Hi @jhs! Mind linking us to your actual site? We’d need to see those in place to understand the misbehavior, and you do not own ‘example.netlify.com’ - our CEO does :stuck_out_tongue: