[HTTPCLIENT-245] customize handling of 302 redirects

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0 Final
• Fix Version/s: 4.0 Alpha 1
• Component/s: HttpClient (classic)
• Environment: Operating System: Linux; Platform: Other
• Bugzilla Id: 21584
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Aaron DeLong
• Created: 15/Jul/03 03:30
• Updated: 20/Jul/07 18:36
• Resolved: 12/May/07 10:55

Description

I tried this with both the beta2 2.0 release, and the nightly build. The
following code snippet describes what I am trying to do:

httpClient.getHostConfiguration().setHost(sHost, 80, "http");
HttpMethod method=null;
if (sMethod.indexOf("POST")!=-1) {
method=new PostMethod(sURLInfo);
} else {
method=new GetMethod(sURLInfo);
}
method.setFollowRedirects(true);
httpClient.executeMethod(method);

After this code executes, the "getFollowRedirects" method still returns false,
and any redirects which are sent by the webserver are not followed. As a
temporary workaround, since I want all redirects followed, I commented out the
following code in the HttpMethodBase class in the "processRedirectResponse" method:

/*if (!getFollowRedirects()) {
LOG.info("Redirect requested but followRedirects is "
+ "disabled");
return false;
}*/

If this bug has already been reported, I apologize...I searched for and found
nothing related to this issue.