Hyperlink Redirect
 

We are seeing the following behavior within Excel for hyperlinks; we tried
both just placing the direct hyperlink in a cell as well as the Hyperlink
function.

A hyperlink references a URL resource that results in a 302 status code when
clicked. When the browser launches, the only request sent by the browser is
to the redirected resource and the original resource request is never seen.
We'd like the browser to receive the original URL and therefore be the client
to receive the 302 and perform the redirection. Is this possible?

A concrete example:

1. User clicks http://host:port/ABC (the result of this will be a 302 to
http://host:port/DEF)
2. The browser launches and makes a request of http://host:port/DEF, but
never sees the http://host:port/ABC request.

The ultimate goal for this scenario is that the initial ABC request would be
received from the browser so that java servlet HttpSession tracking will have
the correct association if/when the ABC application is returned to from DEF.