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HttpClient redirecting to URL with spaces throwing exception

Answer 1

A:

http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/net/URI.html

or just replace the "+" with the %20

similar question

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1211229/in-a-url-should-spaces-be-encoded-using-20-or

Aaron Saunders 2010-08-06 03:10:47

Answer 2

+1 A:

The Apache HTTP library allows you to register a RedirectHandler object that will get invoked whenever a redirect occurs. You can use this to intercept the redirect and fix it.

(That being said, the site that's sending you this redirect is broken. You should contact them and let them know.)

class CustomRedirectHandler extends DefaultRedirectHandler {
    URI getLocationURI(HttpResponse response, HttpContext context) {
        // Extract the Location: header and manually convert spaces to %20's
        // Return the corrected URI
    }
}

DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
RedirectHandler customRedirectHandler = new CustomRedirectHandler();
//...
httpClient.setRedirectHandler(customRedirectHandler);

Trevor Johns 2010-08-06 03:23:19

Answer 3

+1 A:

Here is my working code :)

class spaceRedirectHandler extends DefaultRedirectHandler{

                private static final String REDIRECT_LOCATIONS = "http.protocol.redirect-locations";

                public spaceRedirectHandler() {
                    super();
                }

                public boolean isRedirectRequested(
                        final HttpResponse response,
                        final HttpContext context) {
                    if (response == null) {
                        throw new IllegalArgumentException("HTTP response may not be null");
                    }
                    int statusCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
                    switch (statusCode) {
                    case HttpStatus.SC_MOVED_TEMPORARILY:
                    case HttpStatus.SC_MOVED_PERMANENTLY:
                    case HttpStatus.SC_SEE_OTHER:
                    case HttpStatus.SC_TEMPORARY_REDIRECT:
                        return true;
                    default:
                        return false;
                    } //end of switch
                }

                public URI getLocationURI(
                        final HttpResponse response, 
                        final HttpContext context) throws ProtocolException {
                    if (response == null) {
                        throw new IllegalArgumentException("HTTP response may not be null");
                    }
                    //get the location header to find out where to redirect to
                    Header locationHeader = response.getFirstHeader("location");
                    if (locationHeader == null) {
                        // got a redirect response, but no location header
                        throw new ProtocolException(
                                "Received redirect response " + response.getStatusLine()
                                + " but no location header");
                    }
//HERE IS THE MODIFIED LINE OF CODE
                    String location = locationHeader.getValue().replaceAll (" ", "%20");

                    URI uri;
                    try {
                        uri = new URI(location);            
                    } catch (URISyntaxException ex) {
                        throw new ProtocolException("Invalid redirect URI: " + location, ex);
                    }

                    HttpParams params = response.getParams();
                    // rfc2616 demands the location value be a complete URI
                    // Location       = "Location" ":" absoluteURI
                    if (!uri.isAbsolute()) {
                        if (params.isParameterTrue(ClientPNames.REJECT_RELATIVE_REDIRECT)) {
                            throw new ProtocolException("Relative redirect location '" 
                                    + uri + "' not allowed");
                        }
                        // Adjust location URI
                        HttpHost target = (HttpHost) context.getAttribute(
                                ExecutionContext.HTTP_TARGET_HOST);
                        if (target == null) {
                            throw new IllegalStateException("Target host not available " +
                                    "in the HTTP context");
                        }

                        HttpRequest request = (HttpRequest) context.getAttribute(
                                ExecutionContext.HTTP_REQUEST);

                        try {
                            URI requestURI = new URI(request.getRequestLine().getUri());
                            URI absoluteRequestURI = URIUtils.rewriteURI(requestURI, target, true);
                            uri = URIUtils.resolve(absoluteRequestURI, uri); 
                        } catch (URISyntaxException ex) {
                            throw new ProtocolException(ex.getMessage(), ex);
                        }
                    }

                    if (params.isParameterFalse(ClientPNames.ALLOW_CIRCULAR_REDIRECTS)) {

                        RedirectLocations redirectLocations = (RedirectLocations) context.getAttribute(
                                REDIRECT_LOCATIONS);

                        if (redirectLocations == null) {
                            redirectLocations = new RedirectLocations();
                            context.setAttribute(REDIRECT_LOCATIONS, redirectLocations);
                        }

                        URI redirectURI;
                        if (uri.getFragment() != null) {
                            try {
                                HttpHost target = new HttpHost(
                                        uri.getHost(), 
                                        uri.getPort(),
                                        uri.getScheme());
                                redirectURI = URIUtils.rewriteURI(uri, target, true);
                            } catch (URISyntaxException ex) {
                                throw new ProtocolException(ex.getMessage(), ex);
                            }
                        } else {
                            redirectURI = uri;
                        }

                        if (redirectLocations.contains(redirectURI)) {
                            throw new CircularRedirectException("Circular redirect to '" +
                                    redirectURI + "'");
                        } else {
                            redirectLocations.add(redirectURI);
                        }
                    }

                    return uri;
                }
        }

Aymon Fournier 2010-08-06 19:40:46

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