Ahh you are right. I read your previous email too quickly. However, correcting that mistake does not solve the problem.
>From here: http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/preference-api.html I saw another way to set the Params so here is the code I use currently. GetMethod method = new GetMethod( http://portal.acm.org/results.cfm?coll=Portal&query=SomeCRazyString); method.getParams().setParameter("http.protocol.allow-circular-redirects", true); and it still throws the exception On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> wrote: > Larry Homes wrote: > >> Hmm I think I did it right, but it still doesn't work correctly. >> >> Let me provide a little more info: >> >> I am trying to go to the portal.acm.org website, specifcally the results >> page with the url like: >> >> http://portal.acm.org/results.cfm?coll=Portal&query=SomeCRazyString >> >> SomeCrazyString signifies a search term which results in no hits on acm's >> website. What portal.acm.org does in this case is redirect to itself with >> new parameters. I think httpclient see's this redirect to itself as a >> circular redirect, even though it just does it once. >> >> Here is how I tried to disable it: >> >> HttpClientParams http = new HttpClientParams(); >> http.setBooleanParameter("ALLOW_CIRCULAR_REDIRECTS", true); >> > > ALLOW_CIRCULAR_REDIRECTS != http.protocol.allow-circular-redirects > > Oleg > > > > GetMethod method = new GetMethod(" >> http://portal.acm.org/results.cfm?coll=Portal&query=SomeCRazyString";); >> method.setParams(http); >> >> But I still get the CircularRedirectException. >> >> Any help is appreciated. >> >> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected] >> >wrote: >> >> Larry Homes wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>>> >>>> Apache Httpclient is throwing a CircularRedirectException. I know the >>>> redirect is in fact not a circular redirect. Setting setFollowRedirects >>>> to >>>> false, solves the problem, but breaks some other sites redirect and, in >>>> general, I'd like to keep redirects active. So is there any way to turn >>>> off >>>> just Circular Redirect detection? I read that I might be able to do so >>>> with >>>> HttpParams.setParams(), but I do not know what name to set to false to >>>> disable catching circular redirects. >>>> >>>> Thanks for any help >>>> >>>> >>>> Set 'http.protocol.allow-circular-redirects' parameter to true. >>> >>> Oleg >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
