[MJAVADOC-487] Follow redirects

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.1
• Assignee: Guillaume Boué
• Reporter: Matt Nelson
• Created: 29/Jun/17 23:38
• Updated: 02/Mar/18 18:21
• Resolved: 02/Mar/18 18:21

Description

The javadoc plugin should have the ability to follow redirects.

[WARNING] Error fetching link: http://www.slf4j.org/apidocs/package-list. Ignored it.

When looking at this link via curl we can see that the link has new location

curl -v http://www.slf4j.org/apidocs/package-list
< HTTP/1.1 302 Found
< Location: https://www.slf4j.org/apidocs/package-list

https://github.com/apache/maven-plugins/blob/trunk/maven-javadoc-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/javadoc/AbstractJavadocMojo.java#L5785

Issue Links

• relates to: MJAVADOC-427 "Error fetching URL" for valid non-Java API links