Get the url of a redirect with Rest Assured?

Question

I am making a GET request which then makes a 307 redirect to another URL and from there it makes another 302 redirect and so on till it gets to the requested page. I am having problems extracting the URL from the first redirect, the 307, I want to see the location where is redirected to. I am using Rest Assured as framework. Thanks!

Answer 1

I had the same problem, but I didn't have the 307, just 302. I imagine the solution would be the same. What I did was:

1. stop following the redirects on the first call with redirects().follow(false)

2. capture the URL from the first redirect

3. make another call to follow the redirect(s)

   Response resp1 =
           given().
               contentType(ContentType.URLENC).
               body("AUTH_TOKEN=&j_username=" + encodedUsername + "&j_password=" + password + "&userName=&AUTH_TOKEN=").
               redirects().follow(false).
           expect().
               statusCode(302).
           when().
               post("/authenticate/j_spring_security_check");
   
   String headerLocationValue = resp1.getHeader("Location");
   
   Response resp2 =
           given().
               cookie(resp1.getDetailedCookie("JSESSIONID")).
           expect().
               statusCode(200).
           when().
               get(headerLocationValue);