Creating a Custom Apache HTTP Client Redirect policy - apache-httpclient-4.x

Question

Need little help, i might sound little confusing..
I am using Apache HTTP Client 4.5.1, I have a post url which needed some header to be used to call, once we call post url it return 303 and a get url, but As per HTTP Client redirect policy its automatically does redirect GET CALL but it send header also in the redirected GET CALL.
How do i override redirect policy of HTTP Client so that 303 redirect does not use header when calling redirect GET URL.
Any idea how to achieve this. I have already checked few option with redirect policy.

Answer 1

The culprit is this line of code in the RedirectExec request execution interceptor.
One should be able to prevent it from copying the original request headers by adding some harmless dummy request header with a custom redirect strategy
CloseableHttpClient client = HttpClients.custom()
.setRedirectStrategy(new DefaultRedirectStrategy() {
#Override
public HttpUriRequest getRedirect(
HttpRequest request,
HttpResponse response,
HttpContext context) throws ProtocolException {
HttpUriRequest redirectRequest = super.getRedirect(request, response, context);
redirectRequest.addHeader("x-custom", "stuff");
return redirectRequest;
}
})
.build();