Android HttpPost: how to get the result

Question

I have been trying long to send an HttpPost request and retrieve response but even though I was able to make a connection I don't yet get how to get the string message which is returned by the request-response

 HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();  HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("http://www.myurl.com/app/page.php");  // Add your data     List < NameValuePair > nameValuePairs = new ArrayList < NameValuePair > (5);  nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("type", "20"));  nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("mob", "919895865899"));  nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("pack", "0"));  nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("exchk", "1"));   try {      httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));      Log.d("myapp", "works till here. 2");      try {          HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);          Log.d("myapp", "response " + response.getEntity());      } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {          e.printStackTrace();      } catch (IOException e) {          e.printStackTrace();      }  } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {      e.printStackTrace();  }  

I'm sorry, I sound very naive because I'm new to java. Please help me.

Answer 1

Try to use the EntityUtil on your response:

String responseBody = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity()); 

Answer 2

    URL url;     url = new URL("http://www.url.com/app.php");     URLConnection connection;     connection = url.openConnection();     HttpURLConnection httppost = (HttpURLConnection) connection;     httppost.setDoInput(true);     httppost.setDoOutput(true);     httppost.setRequestMethod("POST");     httppost.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Tranz-Version-t1.914");     httppost.setRequestProperty("Accept_Language", "en-US");     httppost.setRequestProperty("Content-Type",             "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");     DataOutputStream dos = new DataOutputStream(httppost.getOutputStream());     dos.write(b); // bytes[] b of post data      String reply;     InputStream in = httppost.getInputStream();     StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();     try {         int chr;         while ((chr = in.read()) != -1) {             sb.append((char) chr);         }         reply = sb.toString();     } finally {         in.close();     } 

This code snippet works. I got it after along search , but from a J2ME code.