Getting around URL aliasing or forwarding in Automator?

Hi,
I am new to automator but have a simple task that seems not straightforward to implement. I have a page on Google Sites (unfortunately not open to the public) and I upload and download ruby code to it. I'd like to automate downloading all the files that are have certain file extension and are linked from the main page. Those urls, when I copy them as links from the Safari browser, have a format like;
http://sites.google.com/a/some_school.edu/my-cool-proj/Home/builder.c?attredirec ts=0
My workflow is four safari actions;
Get Specified URLs (the url is the top page of the google site for the project)
Get Link URLs from Webpages
Filter URLs
Download URLs
What I notice when I download those files manually from the Google Site page, using Safari, is that there is a second url that the link I started downloading gets forwarded to, apparently, and I can't seem to capture that manually to see what it is (it flashes across the browser's address bar and then dissappears pretty quickly.)
Is there some simple way to follow these forwarded URLs, that is relatively foolproof, and that could be automated? I could take it on faith that the implementation of those forwarded links is not going to change, though that seems iffy. I could use or build some other site to post and pull code from, but that seems risky, and honestly the Automator script wouldn't save me more time than I would lose in such an effort.
Any suggestions would be appreciated -
C

Hello Prashanth,
It may not be as simple as adding an http header through the Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) in the stack. The web page is returned by both the Parallel Page Engine in OC4J_Portal and the Web Cache, not by the OHS. Since OHS doesn't play a role in the response, it is not possible to tag the headers.
You could consider to install a reverse proxy server (e.g. Apache 2) in front of your web cache and add the header tag in this configuration. That should work.
Thanks,
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