The RESTeasy implementation of the JAX-RS client library does not seem to support any handling of redirects, despite the underlying ability of Apache HttpClient to do so.

At the very least there are these problems:

1) There is no way to indicate that a proxy class generated via ResteasyWebTarget.proxy should follow redirects.

2) ClientInvoker has some relevant methods but you cannot call the setter "followRedirects" particularly from a proxy and even if you could the getter seems to be totally unreferenced

3) ApacheHttpClient4Engine explicitly forbids it with a TODO

      if (httpMethod instanceof HttpGet && false) // todo  && request.followRedirects())
      {
         HttpClientParams.setRedirecting(httpMethod.getParams(), true);
      }
      else
      {
         HttpClientParams.setRedirecting(httpMethod.getParams(), false);
      }

There are multiple threads to the mailing list about this functionality and none of them seem to have any response but silence.