Make ApacheConnector more open for extension or provide access to ClientResponse#getResolvedRequestUri()

Hi,

I am trying to use the client to write against a REST API. The API is navigable and I need to resolve URLs for new requests based on the URL of previous responses (e.g. if a relative URI is returned in a response). In order to make this work, I need to get the actual URL from the response. Since Jersey supports HTTP clients that can follow redirects, I cannot use the initial URL of the request.

Unfortunately, there is no way to access Jersey‘s `ClientResponse#getResolvedRequestUri()` method, at least not without forcing access to the instance within the Response implementation.

In my current project, I use the Apache HTTP Client and Jersey‘s ApacheConnector. So, I also looked into writing a `HttpResponseInterceptor` which could add the effective URL as a header. This method would be elegant. But the ApacheConnector is closed for extension. I am not able to extend the configuration of the `HttpClient` (via `HttpClientBuilder`).

So it would be helpful, if the connector is more open for modification. If my problem can be solved in a different way, I‘d appreciate any advice.

For now, I will probably write a custom connector, since I don‘t want to handle redirects manually through the JAX-WS RS API.

Thanks,
Robert