Apache HttpComponents: org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException

Question

So I use apache HttpComponents to handle http request in java. Now I want to reuse the DefaultHttpClient, what should be possible accoarding to this example: http:/

Answer 1

This is likely due to a recent bug in the v4.2 BasicClientConnectionManager affecting cross site redirects. See http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1193.

According to the maintainer, one temporary workaround is to use SingleClientConnManager or PoolingClientConnectionManager. Perhaps something like this:

ClientConnectionManager connManager = new PoolingClientConnectionManager();
DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(connManager);
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