[jira] [Created] (MJAVADOC-487) Follow redirects

["Matt Nelson (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Matt Nelson created MJAVADOC-487:
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             Summary: Follow redirects
                 Key: MJAVADOC-487
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MJAVADOC-487
             Project: Maven Javadoc Plugin
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Matt Nelson


The javadoc plugin should have the ability to follow redirects.

{noformat}
[WARNING] Error fetching link: http://www.slf4j.org/apidocs/package-list. Ignored it.
{noformat}

When looking at this link via curl we can see that the link has new location
{noformat}
curl -v http://www.slf4j.org/apidocs/package-list
< HTTP/1.1 302 Found
< Location: https://www.slf4j.org/apidocs/package-list
{noformat}

https://github.com/apache/maven-plugins/blob/trunk/maven-javadoc-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/javadoc/AbstractJavadocMojo.java#L5785



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