Httpclient 4, error 302. How to redirect?

Question

I want to access one site that first requires an (tomcat server) authentication and then log in with a POST request and keep that user to see the site's pages. I use Httpclient 4.0.1

The first authentication works fine but not the logon that always complains about this error: "302 Moved Temporarily"

I keep cookies & I keep a context and yet nothing. Actually, it seems that the logon works, because if I write incorrect parameters or user||password, I see the login page. So I guess what doesn't work is the automatic redirection.

Following my code, which always throws the IOException, 302:

    DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
    CookieStore cookieStore = new BasicCookieStore();
    httpclient.getParams().setParameter(
      ClientPNames.COOKIE_POLICY, CookiePolicy.BROWSER_COMPATIBILITY); 
    HttpContext context = new BasicHttpContext();
    context.setAttribute(ClientContext.COOKIE_STORE, cookieStore);
    //ResponseHandler<String> responseHandler = new BasicResponseHandler();

    Credentials testsystemCreds = new UsernamePasswordCredentials(TESTSYSTEM_USER,  TESTSYSTEM_PASS);
    httpclient.getCredentialsProvider().setCredentials(
            new AuthScope(AuthScope.ANY_HOST, AuthScope.ANY_PORT),
            testsystemCreds);

    HttpPost postRequest = new HttpPost(cms + "/login");
    List<NameValuePair> formparams = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
    formparams.add(new BasicNameValuePair("pUserId", user));
    formparams.add(new BasicNameValuePair("pPassword", pass));
    postRequest.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(formparams, "UTF-8"));
    HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(postRequest, context);
    System.out.println(response);

    if (response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() != HttpStatus.SC_OK)
        throw new IOException(response.getStatusLine().toString());

    HttpUriRequest currentReq = (HttpUriRequest) context.getAttribute( 
            ExecutionContext.HTTP_REQUEST);
    HttpHost currentHost = (HttpHost)  context.getAttribute( 
            ExecutionContext.HTTP_TARGET_HOST);
    String currentUrl = currentHost.toURI() + currentReq.getURI();        
    System.out.println(currentUrl);

    HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
    if (entity != null) {
        long len = entity.getContentLength();
        if (len != -1 && len < 2048) {
            System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
        } else {
            // Stream content out
        }
    }

Answer 1

Redirects are not handled automatically by HttpClient 4.1 for other methods than GET and PUT.