title: Avoid Circular Redirect using HttpClient 4.1.1
body: <p>How can I avoid circular redirect using HttpClient 4.1.1. As I am getting the error like this:-</p>
  
  <pre><code>executing requestGET http://home.somehost.com/Mynet/pages/cHome.xhtml HTTP/1.1
  org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException
      at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:822)
      at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:754)
      at edu.uci.ics.crawler4j.url.WebURL.setURL(WebURL.java:122)
      at edu.uci.ics.crawler4j.crawler.CrawlController.addSeed(CrawlController.java:207)
      at edu.uci.ics.crawler4j.example.advanced.Controller.main(Controller.java:31)
  Caused by: org.apache.http.client.CircularRedirectException: Circular redirect to 'http://home.somehost.com/Mynet/pages/Home.xhtml'
      at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRedirectStrategy.getLocationURI(DefaultRedirectStrategy.java:168)
      at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRedirectStrategy.getRedirect(DefaultRedirectStrategy.java:193)
      at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.handleResponse(DefaultRequestDirector.java:1021)
      at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.execute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:482)
      at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:820)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is my code...</p>
  
  <pre><code>DefaultHttpClient client = null;
  
          try
          {
              // Set url
              //URI uri = new URI(url.toString());
  
              client = new DefaultHttpClient();
  
              client.getCredentialsProvider().setCredentials(
                      new AuthScope(AuthScope.ANY_HOST, AuthScope.ANY_PORT, AuthScope.ANY_REALM),
                      new UsernamePasswordCredentials("test", "test"));
  
  
              URL url1 = new URL (url);
              HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url1.openConnection();
              connection.setFollowRedirects(false);
  
              HttpGet request = new HttpGet(url);
              final HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams();
              HttpClientParams.setRedirecting(params, false);
              HttpContext context = new BasicHttpContext();
  
              System.out.println("----------------------------------------");
              System.out.println("executing request" + request.getRequestLine());
              HttpResponse response = client.execute(request, context);
              HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
  
  
              System.out.println(response.getStatusLine());
                      InputStream content = entity.getContent();
                      BufferedReader in   = 
                          new BufferedReader (new InputStreamReader (content));
                      String line;
                      while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
                         // System.out.println(line);
                      }
                  } catch(Exception e) {
                      e.printStackTrace();
                  }
  </code></pre>