I have an authentication protected url : www.domain.com/alias
that when requested will return another url: www.another.com/resource.mp4 (not protected)
I would like to know if exists a method in Java that will return the real url from a given one. Something like: second = resolve(first)
I'm thinking of loading the first and try to read into the response maybe the location attribute, but since I'm not a java guru I would like to know if Java already faces this.