[HTTPCLIENT-1878] Automatic redirect handling incorrectly parses cookies

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.5.3
• Component/s: HttpClient (async), HttpClient (classic)
• Environment: Linux, Java 8 OpenJDK
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Bert Peters
• Created: 31/Oct/17 10:24
• Updated: 31/Oct/17 11:15
• Resolved: 31/Oct/17 11:15

Description

When a request is handled as a redirect, the HttpClient incorrectly does not handle any `SetCookie` headers but instead just starts the redirect.

This issue affects both the HttpClient and HttpAsyncClient.

To reproduce:

1. Create two pages, one redirecting to the next.
2. Let the first page set a cookie
3. Dump all cookies sent to the second page

A current workaround is to handle redirects manually, since that way cookies are parsed normally.