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    copied!<p>I'd use the following:</p> <pre><code>@Test public void testLocation() throws Exception { final String link = "http://bit.ly/4Agih5"; final URL url = new URL(link); final HttpURLConnection urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); urlConnection.setInstanceFollowRedirects(false); final String location = urlConnection.getHeaderField("location"); assertEquals("http://stackoverflow.com/", location); assertEquals(link, urlConnection.getURL().toString()); } </code></pre> <p>With <code>setInstanceFollowRedirects(false)</code> the <code>HttpURLConnection</code> does not follow redirects and the destination page (<code>stackoverflow.com</code> in the above example) will not be downloaded just the redirect page from <code>bit.ly</code>.</p> <p>One drawback is that when a resolved <code>bit.ly</code> URL points to another short URL for example on <code>tinyurl.com</code> you will get a <code>tinyurl.com</code> link, not what the <code>tinyurl.com</code> redirects to.</p> <p><strong>Edit</strong>:</p> <p>To see the reponse of <code>bit.ly</code> use <code>curl</code>:</p> <pre><code>$ curl --dump-header /tmp/headers http://bit.ly/4Agih5 &lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;title&gt;bit.ly&lt;/title&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;a href="http://stackoverflow.com/"&gt;moved here&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>As you can see <code>bit.ly</code> sends only a short redirect page. Then check the HTTP headers:</p> <pre><code>$ cat /tmp/headers HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently Server: nginx Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 08:48:59 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Cache-Control: private; max-age=90 Location: http://stackoverflow.com/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Length: 117 X-Cache: MISS from cam X-Cache-Lookup: MISS from cam:3128 Via: 1.1 cam:3128 (squid/2.7.STABLE7) Connection: close </code></pre> <p>It sends a <code>301 Moved Permanently</code> response with a <code>Location</code> header (which points to <code>http://stackoverflow.com/</code>). Modern browsers don't show you the HTML page above. Instead they automatically redirect you to the URL in the <code>Location</code> header.</p>
 

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