> Is it better i go ahead and raise a jira for this one. I wouldn't open a bug unless you can point to the code at fault.
Todd Lainhart Senior Software Engineer - ExperienceOne, Digital Analytics Phone: 1-978-899-4705 | Mobile: 1-508-331-1110 E-mail: [email protected] 550 King St Littleton, MA 01460-1250 United States From: srihari na <[email protected]> To: HttpClient User Discussion <[email protected]> Date: 10/28/2014 05:47 AM Subject: Re: HttpClient with CircularRedirectException I am still not convinced that it is a server side problem because other clients are able to handle the redirects to some sort of solution. I believe there might be some issue in the redirect strategy of the HTTP client. Is it better i go ahead and raise a jira for this one. On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Todd W Lainhart <[email protected]> wrote: > srihari na <[email protected]> wrote on 10/15/2014 04:38:23 AM: > > > My concern is why the Http Client library is hitting Circular redirect > or > > maximum redirect issue where as normal rest client or simple java > program > > does not have any issue while invoking the URL. > > > > An obvious guess is that the other clients are following the redirects to > some sort of resolution. Take a look at network traffic between the > client and the server to confirm this. An excessive number of redirects > (circular or otherwise) might be an indication of some sort of problem on > the server, which the circularRedirects property can alert you to. From > RequestConfig: > > /** > * Determines whether circular redirects (redirects to the same > location) should > * be allowed. The HTTP spec is not sufficiently clear whether > circular redirects > * are permitted, therefore optionally they can be enabled > * <p/> > * Default: <code>false</code> > */ -- Regards, Srihari NA
