How to prevent apache http client from following a redirect
Using HttpClient 4.3 and Fluent:
final String url = "http://...";
final HttpClient client = HttpClientBuilder.create()
.disableRedirectHandling()
.build();
final Executor executor = Executor.newInstance(client);
final HttpResponse response = executor.execute(Request.Get(url))
.returnResponse();
This worked for me:
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet("www.google.com");
HttpParams params = httpGet.getParams();
params.setParameter(ClientPNames.HANDLE_REDIRECTS, Boolean.FALSE);
httpGet.setParams(params);
The magic, thanks to macbirdie , is:
params.setParameter("http.protocol.handle-redirects",false);
Imports are left out, here's a copy paste sample:
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpContext localContext = new BasicHttpContext();
// HTTP parameters stores header etc.
HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams();
params.setParameter("http.protocol.handle-redirects",false);
// Create a local instance of cookie store
CookieStore cookieStore = new BasicCookieStore();
// Bind custom cookie store to the local context
localContext.setAttribute(ClientContext.COOKIE_STORE, cookieStore);
// connect and receive
HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet("http://localhost/web/redirect");
httpget.setParams(params);
response = httpclient.execute(httpget, localContext);
// obtain redirect target
Header locationHeader = response.getFirstHeader("location");
if (locationHeader != null) {
redirectLocation = locationHeader.getValue();
System.out.println("loaction: " + redirectLocation);
} else {
// The response is invalid and did not provide the new location for
// the resource. Report an error or possibly handle the response
// like a 404 Not Found error.
}