apache-commons-httpclient

Turning on Logging in HttpClient

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I faced same problem today. And I found out a solution for this problem. It’s pretty simple. Just add jcl-over-slf4j dependency to forward JCL logging (Apache Commons Logging) to slf4j. <dependency> <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId> <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId> <version>1.7.5</version> </dependency> After that you can config log file as Log4j Examples. If you use logback you can put the following to … Read more

PostMethod setRequestBody(String) deprecated – why?

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The javadoc says: Deprecated. use setRequestEntity(RequestEntity) RequestEntity has a lot of implementors, namely: ByteArrayRequestEntity, FileRequestEntity, InputStreamRequestEntity, MultipartRequestEntity, StringRequestEntity Use the one that suits you: if your xml is in a String, use the StringRequestEntity if it is in a file, use the FileRequestEntity and so on.

Apache HttpClient 4.1 – Proxy Settings

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Yes I sorted out my own problem,this line httpclient.getParams().setParameter(“3128”,proxy); should be httpclient.getParams().setParameter(ConnRoutePNames.DEFAULT_PROXY,proxy); Complete Example of a Apache HttpClient 4.1, setting proxy can be found below HttpHost proxy = new HttpHost(“ip address”,port number); DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(); httpclient.getParams().setParameter(ConnRoutePNames.DEFAULT_PROXY,proxy); HttpPost httpost = new HttpPost(url); List<NameValuePair> nvps = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(); nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair(“param name”, param)); httpost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nvps, HTTP.ISO_8859_1)); … Read more

Using Apache httpclient for https

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I put together this test app to reproduce the issue using the HTTP testing framework from the Apache HttpClient package: ClassLoader cl = HCTest.class.getClassLoader(); URL url = cl.getResource(“test.keystore”); KeyStore keystore = KeyStore.getInstance(“jks”); char[] pwd = “nopassword”.toCharArray(); keystore.load(url.openStream(), pwd); TrustManagerFactory tmf = TrustManagerFactory.getInstance( TrustManagerFactory.getDefaultAlgorithm()); tmf.init(keystore); TrustManager[] tm = tmf.getTrustManagers(); KeyManagerFactory kmfactory = KeyManagerFactory.getInstance( KeyManagerFactory.getDefaultAlgorithm()); kmfactory.init(keystore, pwd); … Read more

Using Apache HttpClient how to set the TIMEOUT on a request and response

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I am guessing many people come here because of the title and because the HttpConnectionParams API is deprecated. Using a recent version of Apache HTTP Client, you can set these timeouts using the request params: HttpPost request = new HttpPost(url); RequestConfig requestConfig = RequestConfig.custom() .setSocketTimeout(TIMEOUT_MILLIS) .setConnectTimeout(TIMEOUT_MILLIS) .setConnectionRequestTimeout(TIMEOUT_MILLIS) .build(); request.setConfig(requestConfig); Alternatively, you can also set this … Read more