Question

I have HttpClient 4.1. Please have a look at following program:

import org.apache.http.client.methods.*;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;

public class SysCommands {
    public static void main(String [] args){
        try{
            HttpClient c = new DefaultHttpClient();
            System.out.println("Initial part");
            HttpGet method = new HttpGet("http://www.google.com");
            HttpResponse resp = c.execute(method);
            System.out.println("Method executed");
            String s = "";
            resp.getHeaders(s);
            System.out.println("headers are "+s);
            BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(resp.getEntity().getContent()));
            String line = "";
            while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
                    System.out.println(line);
            }
        }catch(Exception e){
            System.out.println(e);
        }
    }
}

When I run this, I get org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException. What could be wrong?

Answer 1

It might be that google redirects you to your “local” google site. I live in the Netherlands, and when I get http://www.google.com, it responds with a HTTP 302 redirect to http://www.google.nl.

I’m not sure how the default http client is configured, but it is possible that it does not follow redirects by default.