URL Connection with redirects

Question

I got a scenario where it directs multiple times (less than 4 times) and finally renders the output.
I want to get the final output. I tried this but what I get is 302 status code with no content.
How to get the final content.
Is there any redirect attribute I should set in HttpURLConnection class.
I was under the impression redirects happens automatically and eventually shows the final output if the redirects are less than 5, should I programatically handle this with 'location' header field
Following is my code sample
URL hcURL = new URL("http://localhost:8080/test/index.xml");
HttpURLConnection.setFollowRedirects(true);
HttpURLConnection hcConnection = (HttpURLConnection)hcURL.openConnection();
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(hcConnection.getInputStream()));
Log.debug("Value of the response code is "+hcConnection.getResponseCode());
Log.debug("Value of the response Message is "+hcConnection.getResponseMessage());
while ((inputLine=in.readLine()) != null) {
Log.debug("The fetched line in the HC is "+inputLine);
}

Answer 1

how can I set the cookie informationSetting cookie is a server's functionality. From a client, for which java.net.HttpURLConnection class can be used, you only set the policy for cookies.
In all situations, however, I'd recommend to use http://jakarta.apache.org/httpcomponents/index.html (*) for manual development of an HTTP client side.
(* Among them modules, HttpClient is a complete and popular API. For cookies, see http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/cookies.html )
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