HttpClient 4 - how to capture last redirect URL

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I have rather simple HttpClient 4 code that calls HttpGet to get HTML output. The HTML returns with scripts and image locations all set to local (e.g. <img src="/images/foo.jpg"/>) so I need calling URL to make these into absolute (<img src="http://foo.com/images/foo.jpg"/>) Now comes the problem - during the call there may be one or two 302 redirects so the original URL is no longer reflects the location of HTML.

How do I get the latest URL of the returned content given all the redirects I may (or may not) have?

I looked at HttpGet#getAllHeaders() and HttpResponse#getAllHeaders() - couldn't find anything.

Edited: HttpGet#getURI() returns original calling address

apache-httpclient-4.x java
8 Answers

In version 2.3 Android still do not support following redirect (HTTP code 302). I just read location header and download again:

if (statusCode != HttpStatus.SC_OK) {
    Header[] headers = response.getHeaders("Location");

    if (headers != null && headers.length != 0) {
        String newUrl = headers[headers.length - 1].getValue();
        // call again the same downloading method with new URL
        return downloadBitmap(newUrl);
    } else {
        return null;
    }
}

No circular redirects protection here so be careful. More on by blog Follow 302 redirects with AndroidHttpClient

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