GetURL after redirect

Question

Hello,
I have a small Java code to get an URL content. It works fine but if the URL is redirected then I have the valid content but the getURL methods returns with the original URL. I think it is normal, but how can I get the real URL of the page?
My Java code:
URL u = new URL("http://test/base.php");
HttpURLConnection.setFollowRedirects( true );
HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection)u.openConnection();
System.out.println("URL: " + con.getURL());And suppose the base.php looks like this:
<?php
   header('Location: http://test/redir.html');
?>What I want is in my Java application to get the http://test/redir.html instead of the http://test/base.php.
Any idea?
Thanks in advance!
Maldiv

Answer 1

sorry if this is a stupid question, but I thought that URLConnection's default behavior is to follow redirects. Have you tried this without the getFollowRedirects method called? (I know, it shouldn't probably do anything, but at least it's something to think about)
edit: I guess that's specifically for html redirects, not php redirects, and I'm not sure if there's a difference, or if the Java APIs regarding this cover redirects in php. Perhaps you could try this with a <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=queen-of-england.html">sort of redirecting page, to make sure your code isn't messing up on something else. If this works fine, you might have to end up reading the php page to ensure that there isn't a redirection message there, and handling the redirect yourself if such a thing is in the page.