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Asked: 2026-06-09T09:24:11+00:00

From the output I understood that the website homepage does refresh and redirects the

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From the output I understood that the website homepage does refresh and redirects the request to other page that happens ok on a browser but it doesn’t on code. so how do I move forward along with that redirection ? 

try {
            URL url = StringUtils.stringToURL(link);
            URLConnection dbGatewayURL = url.openConnection();
            dbGatewayURL.setConnectTimeout(timeout);
            BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                    dbGatewayURL.getInputStream()));
            StringBuffer responseData = new StringBuffer();
            String line = "";
            while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
                responseData.append(line + "\n");
            }

The Out put is:

<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH CONTENT="0;URL=/sites/engbm">
</HEAD>

Which raises unexpected end of file exception when I try to httpUrlConn.setRequestMethod("HEAD");

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  1. Editorial Team

    You’ll have to parse the output and look for the <META HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH> tag. It tells the browser that response header equivalents are being included in the content itself. In this case, it’s telling the browser to redirect to /sites/engbm after 0 seconds. Just to clear up what the META HTTP-EQUIV is for: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_meta_http_equiv.asp

    The http-equiv attribute provides an HTTP header for the information/value of the content attribute.

    The http-equiv attribute can be used to simulate an HTTP response header.

    If the name attribute is set, the http-equiv attribute should not be set.

    As for:

    Which raises unexpected end of file exception when I try to httpUrlConn.setRequestMethod("HEAD");

    This is because HEAD requests have no response body.

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