Question

I am executing following sample program of httpclient of “GET” method.

    import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
    import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.GetMethod;
    import org.apache.commons.httpclient.params.HttpMethodParams;

    public class TestMethodStatuscode {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception 
{
     HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
     client.getParams().setParameter(HttpMethodParams.USER_AGENT,
     "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)");
     //client.getParams().setCookiePolicy(org.apache.http.client.params.CookiePolicy.BROWSER_COMPATIBILITY);

    GetMethod get = new GetMethod("http://de.mg40.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?.rand=80g4u84m26ifl");
    //get_siteurl.getParams().setCookiePolicy(CookiePolicy.BROWSER_COMPATIBILITY);
    client.executeMethod(get);
    System.out.println("Status code: "+get.getStatusCode());
    //System.out.println(get.getResponseBodyAsString());
    get.releaseConnection();
}

}

output:- Status code: 200

The url I am trying to fetch is some url which I get during process of login to yahoo.de email account (login to yahoo.de did not work for me so was trying this code). If I enable wireshark (filter-http or (http.request.method == POST or http.request.method == GET) and then type this url in browser , press enter and finally I notice in wireshark that the return code of the above url is 302 which means it is redirected.

Also when I run my program and check in wireshark, I see that method returns the code 302. So my queston is why it is giving me 200 as a statuscode as output and not 302 ?

Answer 1

As per documentation:

GetMethods will follow redirect requests from the http server by default. This behavour can be disabled by calling setFollowRedirects(false).