apparently circular redirect makes p:http-request crash

[gimsieke]

When checking URL citations in journal XML with p:http-request, we recently stumbled across the URL http://www.journalofosteopathicmedicine.com/ that makes p:http-request (and the whole pipeline and Calabash around it) crash.

This gist contains some information on how to reproduce it.

The site gives cookies and redirects with 302. I think the HTTP client uses these cookies when following the redirect, but then it will always be redirected again to the same address, as @lwittmar found out:

Caused by: org.apache.http.client.CircularRedirectException: 
Circular redirect to 'http://www.journalofosteopathicmedicine.com/action
/consumeSharedSessionAction?JSESSIONID=aaadi4L48DSXp-opBjfkv&
MAID=3hkdvCRbSm1D9doWM4MieA%3D%3D&
SERVER=WZ6myaEXBLFhx%2B6Ws3Nrug%3D%3D&
ORIGIN=540506413&RD=RD'

If you enter the URL in a web browser, you’ll see the journal’s landing page.

If, for some reason, the HTTP client is unable to finally get a 200, Calabash should at least gracefully catch the exception, methinks.