Magnus Gustavsson created HTTPCLIENT-1193:
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             Summary: Regression causing issues with cross-site redirects
                 Key: HTTPCLIENT-1193
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1193
             Project: HttpComponents HttpClient
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: HttpClient
    Affects Versions: 4.2 Final
            Reporter: Magnus Gustavsson


The release version of HttpClient 4.2 introduces a regression with cross-site 
redirects that didn't exist previously.

According to Oleg Kalnichevski in HTTPCLIENT-1185: "There is unfortunately a 
bug in the BasicClientConnectionManager introduced in 4.2 causing issues with 
cross-site redirects."


For example, the following code

import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;

public class BadRequest {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
            HttpGet httpget = new 
HttpGet("http://www.edu.mah.se/KK3231/syllabus/";);
            
System.out.println(httpclient.execute(httpget).getStatusLine().getStatusCode());
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

raises an exception as follows:

% java BadRequest     
org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException
        at 
org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:909)
        at 
org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:805)
        at 
org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:784)
        at BadRequest.main(BadRequest.java:13)
Caused by: org.apache.http.HttpException: Unable to establish route: planned = 
{}->http://edu.mah.se; current = {}->http://www.edu.mah.se
        at 
org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.establishRoute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:842)
        at 
org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.tryConnect(DefaultRequestDirector.java:645)
        at 
org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.execute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:480)
        at 
org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:906)
        ... 3 more


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