How to prevent apache http client from following a redirect

Question

I'm connecting to a remote server with apache http client. the remote server sends a redirect, and i want to achieve that my client isn't following the redirect automatically so that i can extract the propper header and do whatever i want with the target.

i'm looking for a simple working code sample (copy paste) that stops the automatic redirect following behaviour.

i found Preventing HttpClient 4 from following redirect, but it seems i'm too stupid to implement it with HttpClient 4.0 (GA)

Answer 1

The magic, thanks to macbirdie , is:

params.setParameter("http.protocol.handle-redirects",false); 

Imports are left out, here's a copy paste sample:

HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(); HttpContext localContext = new BasicHttpContext();  // HTTP parameters stores header etc. HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams(); params.setParameter("http.protocol.handle-redirects",false);  // Create a local instance of cookie store CookieStore cookieStore = new BasicCookieStore();  // Bind custom cookie store to the local context localContext.setAttribute(ClientContext.COOKIE_STORE, cookieStore);  // connect and receive  HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet("http://localhost/web/redirect"); httpget.setParams(params); response = httpclient.execute(httpget, localContext);  // obtain redirect target Header locationHeader = response.getFirstHeader("location"); if (locationHeader != null) {     redirectLocation = locationHeader.getValue();   System.out.println("loaction: " + redirectLocation); } else {   // The response is invalid and did not provide the new location for   // the resource.  Report an error or possibly handle the response   // like a 404 Not Found error. }