On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 01:10:38PM +0100, sebb wrote:
> On 22/09/2009, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 05:14:05PM -0700, Ken Krugler wrote:
> >  >
> >  > On Sep 21, 2009, at 2:30pm, droidin.net wrote:
> >  >
> >  >>
> >  >> I have rather simple HttpClient 4 code that calls HttpGet to get HTML
> >  >> output.
> >  >> The HTML returns with scripts and image locations all set to local
> >  >> (e.g.
> >  >> /images/foo.jpg ) so I need calling URL to make these into absolute (
> >  >> http://foo.com/images/foo.jpg  Now comes the problem - during the call
> >  >> there
> >  >> may be one or two 302 redirects so the original URL is no longer
> >  >> reflects
> >  >> the location of HTML. How do I get the latest URL of the returned
> >  >> content
> >  >> given all the redirects I may (or may not) have?
> >  >>
> >  >> I looked at HttpGet#getAllHeaders() and HttpResponse#getAllHeaders() -
> >  >> couldn't find anything.
> >  >
> >  > From past posts on the list, I thought httpMethod.getURI() would return
> >  > the final URL.
> >  >
> >  > -- Ken
> >  >
> >  >
> >
> >
> > Ken,
> >
> >  This is only partially correct. The original request object remains 
> > unmodified.
> 
> This is a change from 3.1; perhaps needs a note in the Javadoc to say
> it is not affected by redirects.
> 

Sure. The question is where to put it.


> >  So, one needs to retrieve the internal HttpUriRequest and HttpHost objects 
> > from
> >  the execution context in order to find out the final request URI / target 
> > host.
> >  For details see:
> >
> >  
> > http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client/tutorial/html/fundamentals.html#d4e205
> 
> Note that the text talks about 'http.target_host' but the code uses:
> 
> ExecutionContext.HTTP_TARGET_HOST
> 
> which is presumably a constant for the value. I think this is confusing.
> 
> I assume the HC4 code actually uses constants throughout, so would IMO
> the document should do so too.
> 
> Any objections to updating the documentation accordingly?
> 

Certainly no objection from me, as long as the change is applied consistently
across the entire tutorial.

Oleg

> I would prefer not to document the constant values (available via
> Javadoc anyway), i.e. I propose to change:
> 
> * 'http.target_host':   HttpHost instance representing the connection target.
> 
> to
> 
> * ExecutionContext.HTTP_TARGET_HOST:   HttpHost instance representing
> the connection target.
> 
> However, I suppose one could write:
> 
> * ExecutionContext.HTTP_TARGET_HOST ('http.target_host'):   HttpHost
> instance representing the connection target.
> 
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