Question

I am using HttpClient to do Post request to a server URL. The server URL is redirecting me and seems like my HttpClient is getting redirected automatically. I wanted to intercept the redirect response 302. I am unable to use setFollowRedirects(false). I wanted to know if there is anyway to do intercept the 302 response and stop Auto redirection?? I saw that we can achieve this using HttpURL Connection

   HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
   connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
   connection.setFollowRedirects(false);

However I want to use HttpClient and HttpPost to avoid huge changes in my current implementation. Is there any way to achieve the same?

Answer 1

ResponseHandler.handleResponse(HttpResponse response) is part of the HttpClient class.

Also most of the HttpClient.execute methods return an HttpResponse. Use HttpResponse.getStatusLine().getStatusCode().

Also look at org.apache.http.client.RedirectHandler.