I've got a program that uses Jetty version 8 to send an http post. My response handler works, but I'm getting an http response code 303, which is a redirect. I read a comment that jetty 8 has support for following these redirects, but I can not figure out how to set it up. I've tried looking at the javadocs, and I found the RedirectListener class, but no details on how to use it. My attempts at guessing how to code it haven't worked so I'm stuck. All help is appreciated!
Edit
I looked through the jetty source code and found that it will only redirect when the response code is either 301 or 302. I was able to override the RedirectListener to get it to handle repose code 303 as well. After that Joakim's code works perfectly.
public class MyRedirectListener extends RedirectListener
{
public MyRedirectListener(HttpDestination destination, HttpExchange ex)
{
super(destination, ex);
}
@Override
public void onResponseStatus(Buffer version, int status, Buffer reason)
throws IOException
{
// Since the default RedirectListener only cares about http
// response codes 301 and 302, we override this method and
// trick the super class into handling this case for us.
if (status == HttpStatus.SEE_OTHER_303)
status = HttpStatus.MOVED_TEMPORARILY_302;
super.onResponseStatus(version,status,reason);
}
}
Simple enough
HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
client.registerListener(RedirectListener.class.getName());
client.start();
// do your exchange here
ContentExchange get = new ContentExchange();
get.setMethod(HttpMethods.GET);
get.setURL(requestURL);
client.send(get);
int state = get.waitForDone();
int status = get.getResponseStatus();
if(status != HttpStatus.OK_200)
throw new RuntimeException("Failed to get content: " + status);
String content = get.getResponseContent();
// do something with the content
client.stop();