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Posted to dev@hc.apache.org by "Oleg Kalnichevski (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org> on 2007/11/26 18:29:43 UTC

[jira] Resolved: (HTTPCLIENT-706) httpclient method handling redirects to non-http protocol

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-706?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Oleg Kalnichevski resolved HTTPCLIENT-706.
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    Resolution: Won't Fix

Adam,

HttpClient is not a browser and as such is not meant to handle any other protocol but HTTP. It is clearly a responsibility of the application layer to switch protocols, not that of the protocol layer. 

HttpClient throws IllegalStateException because it fails to find a socket factory for the request with the FTP scheme. If you register a socket factory for it, HttpClient should be able to request FTP resources using HTTP protocol just fine. However, the target HTTP server must be capable of acting as a proxy for FTP resources for that to work.  

Oleg



> httpclient method handling redirects to non-http protocol
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>
>                 Key: HTTPCLIENT-706
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-706
>             Project: HttpComponents HttpClient
>          Issue Type: Wish
>          Components: HttpClient
>    Affects Versions: 3.1 Final
>         Environment: os X 10.5
>            Reporter: adam brin
>            Priority: Minor
>
> HTTPClient does not handle protocol redirects 'nicely'.  When you call client.executeMethod(method) on a url like [1] the client throws an IllegalStateException.  Clearly, this is not a bug, the enhancement is/would be to better handle the http redirect that happens prior to the protocol change.  Specifically, either not throwing an exception, but setting a status variable or something so you can pick up the redirected URI/protocol.
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