HttpClient 4 - how to capture last redirect URL

Question

I have rather simple HttpClient 4 code that calls HttpGet to get HTML output. The HTML returns with scripts and image locations all set to local (e.g.

Answer 1

In HttpClient 4, if you are using LaxRedirectStrategy or any subclass of DefaultRedirectStrategy, this is the recommended way (see source code of DefaultRedirectStrategy) :

HttpContext context = new BasicHttpContext();
HttpResult result = client.execute(request, handler, context);
URI finalUrl = request.getURI();
RedirectLocations locations = (RedirectLocations) context.getAttribute(DefaultRedirectStrategy.REDIRECT_LOCATIONS);
if (locations != null) {
    finalUrl = locations.getAll().get(locations.getAll().size() - 1);
}

Since HttpClient 4.3.x, the above code can be simplified as:

HttpClientContext context = HttpClientContext.create();
HttpResult result = client.execute(request, handler, context);
URI finalUrl = request.getURI();
List locations = context.getRedirectLocations();
if (locations != null) {
    finalUrl = locations.get(locations.size() - 1);
}