Wow, I'll definitely check out the new RedirectStrategy Oleg. How stable is 4.1 alpha? When is the release target? I am usually a little hesitant to go with alpha packages but if this saves us some work it might be worth a shot.
Thanks.. --Josh On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 10:27 -0700, Josh Gordineer wrote: > > Thanks Sam. We don't control the target server so looks like I'll be > doing > > manual redirect following. > > > > --Josh > > > > Josh, > > If you do not mind using alpha versions, HttpClient 4.1 comes with a new > RedirectStrategy interface that can be used instead of the > RedirectHandler. Both RedirectStrategy / RedirectHandler can be used to > override protocol restrictions on the automatic redirect handling, but > RedirectStrategy also allows for redirects without conversion to GET > (POSTs/PUTs can be redirected as POSTs/PUTs) > > Oleg > > > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 4:25 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > If you know/control the behaviour of the target server you can use the > > > expect-continue handshake (google for it). HttpClient supports this. > > > > > > If not, I'd disable following of redirects (which will result in a GET, > as > > > you rightly say) and write a small bit of code to capture the response > code > > > and loop until we got a 200 (or a limit was reached). > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Sam > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Josh Gordineer <[email protected]> > > > Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 16:14:21 > > > To: <[email protected]> > > > Reply-To: "HttpClient User Discussion" <[email protected] > > > > > Subject: Redirect on POST with a custom redirect handler? > > > > > > I'm looking for a way to handle a redirect on POST, obviously > HttpClient > > > doesn't handle them automatically. > > > > > > "HttpClient handles all types of redirects automatically, except those > > > explicitly prohibited by the HTTP specification as requiring user > > > intervention. See Other (status code 303) redirects on POST and PUT > > > requests > > > are converted to GET requests as required by the HTTP specification." > > > > > > > > > > http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client/tutorial/html/httpagent.html#d4e1199 > > > > > > The above states that the requests are automatically converted to GETs. > I > > > was wondering if that logic to convert the requests to GETs exists in a > > > place where I can customize such as a custom RedirectHandler or is the > best > > > approach to turn off automatic redirects and write custom logic to > handle > > > each redirect response? > > > > > > Thanks in advance.. > > > > > > --Josh > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
