httpconnection – Tarik Billa

Java: how to use UrlConnection to post request with authorization?

August 22, 2023 by Tarik

A fine example found here. Powerlord got it right, below, for POST you need HttpURLConnection, instead. Below is the code to do that, URL url = new URL(urlString); URLConnection conn = url.openConnection(); conn.setDoOutput(true); conn.setRequestProperty (“Authorization”, encodedCredentials); OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream()); writer.write(data); writer.flush(); String line; BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream())); while ((line = reader.readLine()) … Read more

Connection error: “org.jsoup.UnsupportedMimeTypeException: Unhandled content type”

June 12, 2023 by Tarik

Use ignoreContentType() (see doc here): String myURL = “http://www.rfi.ro/podcast/emisiune/174/feed.xml”; Document pod = Jsoup.connect(myURL).ignoreContentType(true).get();

What is the difference between the setConnectionTimeout , setSoTimeout and “http.connection-manager.timeout” in apache HttpClient API

June 11, 2023 by Tarik

At the lowest level HTTP is TCP socket. So when you request a URL and get a response, at lower level, a client Socket is created which establishes connection to the remote Server Socket, sends some data and receives response. setConnectionTimeout : Client tries to connect to the server. This denotes the time elapsed before … Read more

ConnectionTimeout versus SocketTimeout

November 14, 2022 by Tarik

A connection timeout occurs only upon starting the TCP connection. This usually happens if the remote machine does not answer. This means that the server has been shut down, you used the wrong IP/DNS name, wrong port or the network connection to the server is down. A socket timeout is dedicated to monitor the continuous … Read more

Sending POST data in Android

September 29, 2022 by Tarik

Note (Oct 2020): AsyncTask used in the following answer has been deprecated in Android API level 30. Please refer to Official documentation or this blog post for a more updated example Updated (June 2017) Answer which works on Android 6.0+. Thanks to @Rohit Suthar, @Tamis Bolvari and @sudhiskr for the comments. public class CallAPI extends … Read more

How do you connect localhost in the Android emulator? [duplicate]

September 28, 2022 by Tarik

Use 10.0.2.2 to access your actual machine. As you’ve learned, when you use the emulator, localhost (127.0.0.1) refers to the device’s own loopback service, not the one on your machine as you may expect. You can use 10.0.2.2 to access your actual machine, it is an alias set up to help in development.