 <p>An IMHO improved way based upon ZZ Coder's solution is to use a ResponseInterceptor to simply track the last redirect location. That way you don't lose information e.g. after an hashtag. Without the response interceptor you lose the hashtag. Example: <a href="http://j.mp/OxbI23" rel="nofollow">http://j.mp/OxbI23</a></p> <pre><code>private static HttpClient createHttpClient() throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, KeyManagementException { SSLContext sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL"); TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = new TrustManager[] { new TrustAllTrustManager() }; sslContext.init(null, trustAllCerts, new java.security.SecureRandom()); SSLSocketFactory sslSocketFactory = new SSLSocketFactory(sslContext); SchemeRegistry schemeRegistry = new SchemeRegistry(); schemeRegistry.register(new Scheme("https", 443, sslSocketFactory)); schemeRegistry.register(new Scheme("http", 80, new PlainSocketFactory())); HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams(); ClientConnectionManager cm = new org.apache.http.impl.conn.SingleClientConnManager(schemeRegistry); // some pages require a user agent AbstractHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(cm, params); HttpProtocolParams.setUserAgent(httpClient.getParams(), "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0.1"); httpClient.setRedirectStrategy(new RedirectStrategy()); httpClient.addResponseInterceptor(new HttpResponseInterceptor() { @Override public void process(HttpResponse response, HttpContext context) throws HttpException, IOException { if (response.containsHeader("Location")) { Header[] locations = response.getHeaders("Location"); if (locations.length &gt; 0) context.setAttribute(LAST_REDIRECT_URL, locations[0].getValue()); } } }); return httpClient; } private String getUrlAfterRedirects(HttpContext context) { String lastRedirectUrl = (String) context.getAttribute(LAST_REDIRECT_URL); if (lastRedirectUrl != null) return lastRedirectUrl; else { HttpUriRequest currentReq = (HttpUriRequest) context.getAttribute(ExecutionContext.HTTP_REQUEST); HttpHost currentHost = (HttpHost) context.getAttribute(ExecutionContext.HTTP_TARGET_HOST); String currentUrl = (currentReq.getURI().isAbsolute()) ? currentReq.getURI().toString() : (currentHost.toURI() + currentReq.getURI()); return currentUrl; } } public static final String LAST_REDIRECT_URL = "last_redirect_url"; </code></pre> <p>use it just like ZZ Coder's solution: </p> <pre><code>HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpGet, context); String url = getUrlAfterRedirects(context); </code></pre>