RestTemplate does not do HTTP GET if it should [SPR-5536]

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Eberhard Wolff opened SPR-5536 and commented

If you call getForObject() on an RestTemplate it does not use HTTP GET. The reason is that SimpleClientHttpRequest calls FileCopyUtils.copy(bufferedOutput, this.connection.getOutputStream()); . On Mac OS X JDK 1.6 this connection is sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection and getOutputStream() contains this code:

if(method.equals("GET"))
method = "POST";

making it a POST.

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Affects: 3.0 M2

Attachments:

• RestDoesNotDoGetTest.java (1.48 kB)

Referenced from: commits b08ad44, cbd5ddb

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Eberhard Wolff commented

I have attached a test that shows the problem. Needs an HTTP server on port 8080 on localhost.

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Arjen Poutsma commented

As a workaround, you can use the CommonsClientHttpRequestFactory