Redirection issue

[Paul Gearon]

Hi,

I'm not sure if this should be going to Jeremy, or even if it is, then
if he's still available to work on it (having moved last year).

If I point the RDF validator at a redirected URI provided by
oclc.purl.org then the initial response is a 303 and a content type of
text/html. Unfortunately, the validator just uses the simple
URL.openConnection() method, which doesn't follow redirections.

Following redirections may make this servlet more sophisticated than
you want, but I think it's a useful thing to do. Using something like
Apache Commons HTTP Core would make the addition of this feature
trivial.

Regards,
Paul Gearon

[Eric Prud'hommeaux]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Paul Gearon<gearon@...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure if this should be going to Jeremy, or even if it is, then
> if he's still available to work on it (having moved last year).
>
> If I point the RDF validator at a redirected URI provided by
> oclc.purl.org then the initial response is a 303 and a content type of
> text/html. Unfortunately, the validator just uses the simple
> URL.openConnection() method, which doesn't follow redirections.
>
> Following redirections may make this servlet more sophisticated than
> you want, but I think it's a useful thing to do. Using something like
> Apache Commons HTTP Core would make the addition of this feature
> trivial.

It sounds like you've done a fair amount of the think work, how hard
is the coding (and the release engineering)? If you can make it
dead-simple for me, I may be able to deploy.

> Regards,
> Paul Gearon
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