Claus Ibsen created HTTPCLIENT-2390:
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Summary: Allow to control HTTP redirect 301/302 to not change POST
to GET
Key: HTTPCLIENT-2390
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-2390
Project: HttpComponents HttpClient
Issue Type: Improvement
Affects Versions: 5.4.4
Reporter: Claus Ibsen
At Apache Camel we have users reporting a situation with using a graphql
service that returns a 301 redirect and this causes the call to fail because
the payload is removed due to POST becomes GET. This is correct according to
HTTP spec. But often the real world is "different" and it would be good if
there was an option or some enhanced API in RedirectStrategy so end users can
handle this.
If you look at the source code in
org/apache/httpcomponents/client5/httpclient5/5.4.4/httpclient5-5.4.4-sources.jar!/org/apache/hc/client5/http/impl/async/AsyncRedirectExec.java:149
You can see how status 301/302 is forced to change POST to GET. This is what
would be good if there was some flag or API to decide not to do that.
The Apache Camel use-case
it is v2:
rest("/v2/swapi-graphql/all-films").get()
.produces("application/json")
.to("direct:swapi-graphql-all-films2");
from("direct:swapi-graphql-all-films2")
.setBody(constant("\{ allFilms { films { title director releaseDate } } }"))
.to("graphql://[https://swapi-graphql.netlify.app/.netlify/functions/index]";)
.convertBodyTo(String.class);
The reason for the failure is interesting:
1. GraphQL component constructs POST and invokes HTTP
2. netlify's index URL returns 301 with /graphql - and that forces POST to
be changed to GET by underlying http client.
looking at HTTP spec - it should have been 308
[https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Status/308] -
but haven't seen 308 adopted widely.
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