Follow 302 redirect using Spring restTemplate?

Question

  RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();

  final MappingJackson2XmlHttpMessageConverter converter = new MappingJackson2XmlHttpMessageConverter();
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Answer 1

When using the CommonsClientHttpRequestFactory (which uses HttpClient v3 underneath) you can override the postProcessCommonsHttpMethod method and set to follow redirects.

public class FollowRedirectsCommonsClientHttpRequestFactory extends CommonsClientHttpRequestFactory {

  @Override
  protected void postProcessCommonsHttpMethod(HttpMethodBase httpMethod) {
    httpMethod.setFollowRedirects(true);
  }
}

You can then use it like this (with optional, possibly preconfigured, HttpClient instance) and requests will follow the location headers in response:

RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate(
      new FollowRedirectsCommonsClientHttpRequestFactory());