[HTTPCLIENT-1209] remove dots form url when following a redirect

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.1.3
• Fix Version/s: 4.2.1
• Component/s: HttpClient (classic)
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Martin Tilma
• Created: 22/Jun/12 08:05
• Updated: 05/Oct/13 19:42
• Resolved: 22/Jun/12 11:06

Description

I'm writing a test client for my application. After a POST to the application a redirect is send containing "../" in the url.

To follow the redirect I use the LaxRedirectStrategy. I also expected that the url is normalized and the "../" is removed (like browsers do). But this isn't the case.

When the application redirects the client to: http://localhost/content/profile/../123456789 a get request to exactly that url is made resulting in a 404 at our application.

I extended the LaxRedirectStrategy and added as work arround:
URIUtils.resolve(super.getLocationURI(request, response, context), "")