How to prevent apache http client from following a redirect

Question

I\'m connecting to a remote server with apache http client. the remote server sends a redirect, and i want to achieve that my client isn\'t following the redirect automatica

Answer 1

GetMethod method = new GetMethod(url);
method.setFollowRedirects(false); 

Answer 2

The default HttpClient implementation is pretty limited in configurability, but you can control the redirect handling by using HttpClient's boolean parameter http.protocol.handle-redirects.

See the docs for reference.

Answer 3

instead of call HttpClientBuilder directly, you can use

HttpClients.custom().disableRedirectHandling().build();

Answer 4

To avoid automatic redirection header, one must first configure the request to not do automatic redirects. You can do this by calling HttPClientParams.setRedirection and set it to false. Code snippet is shown below:

HttpPost postURL = new HttpPost(resourceURL);
...
HttpClientParams.setRedirecting(postURL.getParams(), false);