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Jon Moore commented on HTTPCLIENT-1392:
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@Saurabh: Browsers may be being "lenient in what they accept", per Postel's
Law. There's actually considerable debate as to whether this is actually good
engineering advice or not. Currently, HttpComponents aims pretty strongly for
tight adherence to the RFC specs, and these indicate that HTTP header values
(including for the Location header) may only contain ASCII characters per RFC
2616.
If you read HTTPCLIENT-1204 you will see in the comments that there is a way to
override the DefaultRedirectStrategy if you would prefer different behavior.
Oleg is reacting to the following behaviors:
(a) You reopened this issue despite it having been closed as a duplicate of
another issue. It would be customary in this case to then continue discussion
there, or at least to post a comment clarifying why you don't think this is a
duplicate.
(b) The "posting rejected" email actually states that your post got rejected
because you were not a member of the list.
(c) You were advised that this issue had already been discussed on the user
list and that a little research might be appropriate, and were explicitly asked
not to reopen the issue, yet you did.
You may not have realized it, but these are all breaches of open source
etiquette. The maintainers of this project are largely volunteers; they do not
owe anyone anything. Treating their time with respect is important.
For example, I googled "httpclient illegal character in redirect" (my first
search attempt):
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=httpclient+illegal+character+in+redirect
And on the first search result page, I find:
(a) HTTPCLIENT-1204, which is the duplicate issue
(b) A StackOverflow answer explaining the problem in detail.
(c) A link to a post from the httpclient-user mailing list where this issue was
discussed.
You may not have realized this, but you could have found the answer to this
question pretty easily without opening an issue.
I took the time to explain this under the assumption that you just weren't
familiar with these rules of etiquette and hadn't intended to exasperate
anyone. Hopefully you now have enough information:
(a) to understand and solve your problem;
(b) to avoid a similar (probably unintended) negative reaction in the future
from this or other open source projects.
> CLONE - redirect error! java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HTTPCLIENT-1392
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1392
> Project: HttpComponents HttpClient
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: HttpClient
> Environment: centos6.2
> jdk1.6u25
> Reporter: Saurabh
>
> ==========Test.java=====================
> HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
> HttpGet get = new HttpGet("http://localhost:8080/T/Test";);
> client.execute(get);
> client.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
> ==========TestServlet.java=============================
> protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse
> response) throws ServletException, IOException {
> response.sendRedirect("/xx?name=||dsdf&user=||");
> }
> ===============================================
> Throws an exception when I run.
> Exception in thread "main" 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 com.Test.main(Test.java:20)
> Caused by: org.apache.http.ProtocolException: Invalid redirect URI:
> http://localhost:8080/xx?name=||dsdf&user=||
> at
> org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRedirectStrategy.createLocationURI(DefaultRedirectStrategy.java:189)
> at
> org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRedirectStrategy.getLocationURI(DefaultRedirectStrategy.java:140)
> at
> org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRedirectStrategy.getRedirect(DefaultRedirectStrategy.java:209)
> at
> org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.handleResponse(DefaultRequestDirector.java:1070)
> at
> org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.execute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:546)
> at
> org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:906)
> ... 3 more
> Caused by: java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in query at index
> 30: http://localhost:8080/xx?name=||dsdf&user=||
> at java.net.URI$Parser.fail(URI.java:2810)
> at java.net.URI$Parser.checkChars(URI.java:2983)
> at java.net.URI$Parser.parseHierarchical(URI.java:3073)
> at java.net.URI$Parser.parse(URI.java:3015)
> at java.net.URI.<init>(URI.java:577)
> at
> org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRedirectStrategy.createLocationURI(DefaultRedirectStrategy.java:187)
> ... 8 more
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