[HTTPCLIENT-1821] Syncronous and asynchronous versions of the client report exception in a slightly different way

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Fix Version/s: 5.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Sebastiano Vigna
• Created: 09/Jan/13 23:41
• Updated: 02/May/17 14:14
• Resolved: 02/May/17 14:14

Description

This is more a "surprising behaviour" report than a true bug report. We noticed that if you use the asynchronous client and perform too many redirects, the exception passed to the FutureCallback is a RedirectException. However, if you use the synchronous client the execute() method throws a ClientProtocolException whose cause is a RedirectException. If this behaviour is intended it should be probably documented.