Follow 302 redirect using Spring restTemplate?

Question

  RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();

  final MappingJackson2XmlHttpMessageConverter converter = new MappingJackson2XmlHttpMessageConverter();
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Answer 1

Are you trying to redirect from one protocol to another, e.g. from http to https or vise versa? If so the automatic redirect won't work. See this comment: URLConnection Doesn't Follow Redirect

After discussion among Java Networking engineers, it is felt that we shouldn't automatically follow redirect from one protocol to another, for instance, from http to https and vise versa, doing so may have serious security consequences

from https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4620571

Otherwise if you debug the RestTemplate code you will see that by default HttpURLConnection is set properly with getInstanceFollowRedirects() == true.