java urlconnection get the final redirected URL

Question

I have a url which redirects to another url.I want to be able to get the final redirected URL.My code:

    public class testURLConnection
    {
    public st         


        

Answer 1

@user719950 On my MAC-OSX - this solves the issue of truncated HTTP URL :

To your original code , just add this below line : // You have to find through your browser what is the Request Header IE / Chrome is sending. I still dont have the explanation as why this simple setting is causing correct URL :)

HttpURLConnection con =(HttpURLConnection) new URL
( "http://tinyurl.com/KindleWireless" ).openConnection();
 con.setInstanceFollowRedirects(true);
 con.setDoOutput(true);
  System.out.println( "orignal url: " + con.getURL() );     
         **con.setRequestProperty("User-Agent",
    "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_2) 
    AppleWebKit/536.26.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0.2  
   Safari/536.26.17");**                  

           con.connect();
    System.out.println( "connected url: " + con.getURL() );
    Thread.currentThread().sleep(2000l);
    InputStream is = con.getInputStream();
    System.out.println( "redirected url: " + con.getURL() );

    is.close();