Avoid Circular Redirect using HttpClient 4.1.1

Question

How can I avoid circular redirect using HttpClient 4.1.1. As I am getting the error like this:-

executing requestGET http://home.somehost.com/Mynet/pages/cHo         


        

Answer 1

I faced this issue while spring version upgrade, the context is not initialized properly in my case.

In org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRedirectStrategy:

RedirectLocations redirectLocations = (RedirectLocations) clientContext.getAttribute(
                HttpClientContext.REDIRECT_LOCATIONS);

The value of the clientContext should be basicHttpContext, but Spring Web (4.3.x.RELEASE) is initializing the context in:

org.springframework.http.client.HttpComponentsClientHttpRequest.executeInternal();

The value of clientContext is changing, which results in circular redirect error. The Spring Web (3.2.x.RELEASE) don't initialize the context and value will be null.