Handling HttpClient Redirects

Question

I'm POSTing some data to a server that is answering a 302 Moved Temporarily.

I want HttpClient to follow the redirect and automatically GET the new location, as I believe it's the default behaviour of HttpClient. However, I'm getting an exception and not following the redirect :(

Here's the relevant piece of code, any ideas will be appreciated:

HttpParams httpParams = new BasicHttpParams(); HttpClientParams.setRedirecting(httpParams, true); SchemeRegistry schemeRegistry = registerFactories(); ClientConnectionManager clientConnectionManager = new ThreadSafeClientConnManager(httpParams, schemeRegistry);  HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(clientConnectionManager, httpParams) HttpPost postRequest = new HttpPost(url); postRequest.setHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_TYPE, contentType); postRequest.setHeader(ACCEPT, contentType);  if (requestBodyString != null) {     postRequest.setEntity(new StringEntity(requestBodyString)); }  return httpClient.execute(postRequest, responseHandler); 

Answer 1

For HttpClient 4.3:

HttpClient instance = HttpClientBuilder.create()                      .setRedirectStrategy(new LaxRedirectStrategy()).build(); 

For HttpClient 4.2:

DefaultHttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient(); client.setRedirectStrategy(new LaxRedirectStrategy()); 

For HttpClient < 4.2:

DefaultHttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient(); client.setRedirectStrategy(new DefaultRedirectStrategy() {     /** Redirectable methods. */     private String[] REDIRECT_METHODS = new String[] {          HttpGet.METHOD_NAME, HttpPost.METHOD_NAME, HttpHead.METHOD_NAME      };      @Override     protected boolean isRedirectable(String method) {         for (String m : REDIRECT_METHODS) {             if (m.equalsIgnoreCase(method)) {                 return true;             }         }         return false;     } });