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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion ...g-boot-docs/src/docs/antora/modules/reference/pages/testing/test-utilities.adoc
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Expand Up @@ -55,9 +55,10 @@ It is recommended, but not mandatory, to use the Apache HTTP Client (version 5.1
If you have that on your classpath, the javadoc:org.springframework.boot.test.web.client.TestRestTemplate[] responds by configuring the client appropriately.
If you do use Apache's HTTP client, some additional test-friendly features are enabled:

* Redirects are not followed (so you can assert the response location).
* Cookies are ignored (so the template is stateless).

By default, `TestRestTemplate` follows redirects in the same way as `RestTemplate`, regardless of which HTTP client implementation is used.

javadoc:org.springframework.boot.test.web.client.TestRestTemplate[] can be instantiated directly in your integration tests, as shown in the following example:

include-code::MyTests[]
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