[HTTPCLIENT-1447] Clients created with HttpClients.createMinimal do not work with absolute URIs

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.3.1
• Fix Version/s: 4.3.2
• Component/s: HttpClient (classic)
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Joseph Walton
• Created: 15/Jan/14 03:02
• Updated: 04/May/17 09:49
• Resolved: 15/Jan/14 12:24

Description

An HttpClient created with HttpClients.createMinimal does not obey the general API contract of accepting an HttpUriRequest with an absolute URL. Specifically, this case:

HttpClients.createMinimal().execute(new HttpGet("http://localhost:8080/resource"));

would send the request:

GET http://localhost:8080/resource HTTP/1.1

rather than the expected:

GET /resource HTTP/1.1

The fix is to perform rewriting in MinimalClientExec.