Preventing HttpClient 4 from following redirect

Question

I\'m connecting to my AppEngine application using the Apache HttpComponents library. In order to authenticate my users, I need to pass an authentication token along to the

Answer 1

You can do it with the http params:

final HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams();
HttpClientParams.setRedirecting(params, false);

The method has no javadoc, but if you look at the source you can see it sets:

HANDLE_REDIRECTS

which controls:

Defines whether redirects should be handled automatically