Xalan handling of HTTP redirects by the document() method

sebb <[email protected]> Tue, 5 Jan 2016 19:44:35 +0000

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I'm getting an error when using document() on a URL which redirects.

It looks like Xalan (2.7.2) is not honouring the redirect, but instead
is processing the content.

Is this a known restriction?

Is there a way to tell Xalan to honour redirects when processing
document() calls?