301 Moved Permanently, URLConnection and HTTPURLConnection
If a website has applied a redirection from " BaseUrl" to " BaseUrl /" then what you see the response by hitting " " in your browser "301 Moved Permanently" and redirected to " /" How to deal this situation when creating a URLConnection and know to what URL you have been redirected to? If you specify URLConnection con = new URL(uri).openConnection(); It would create a connection. Later if you try to get the URL from the "con" object. con.getURL().toString(); This would give you the "BaseUrl " and you would not get the redirected URL. But if you create a HttpURLConnection instead of URLConnection. HttpURLConnection httpURLCon = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(uri).openConnection(); then if you try to get the URL it would give the correct redirected URL "BaseUrl/" If anyone does get contradictory results, please do let me know.