Getting “java.net.ProtocolException: Server redirected too many times” Error

Question

I\'m making a simple URL request with code like this:

URL url = new URL(webpage);
URLConnection urlConnection = url.openConnection();
InputStream is = urlCon         


        

Answer 1

I was using Jenkins on Tomcat6 on a unix environment and got this bug. For some reason, upgrading to Java7 solved it. I'd be interested to know exactly why that fixed it.