How to detect a redirected URL?

Question

I\'m working on an app that takes URLs from RSS feeds and opens them in a video player. It works if the URL is directly to the mp4/whatever file, but if I have a redirected URL

Answer 1

for redirected url you may try this

try {
    HttpResponse response = client.execute(getRequest);
    final int statusCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
    if(statusCode == HttpStatus.SC_MOVED_PERMANENTLY || statusCode == HttpStatus.SC_MOVED_TEMPORARILY){
        String location = response.getHeaders("Location")[0].toString();
        String redirecturl = location.replace("Location: ", "");
    }
}