How do I use the AndroidHttpClient
as an HTTP client to connect to a remote server? I have not been able to find good examples in the documentation nor on the internet.
HttpClient is used when you want to receive and send data from the server over the internet. So for this you need to create a http client using HttpClient class. First, you will create the object of Http client and the URL to the constructor of HttpPost class that post the data.
An HTTP Client. An HttpClient can be used to send requests and retrieve their responses. An HttpClient is created through a builder . The builder can be used to configure per-client state, like: the preferred protocol version ( HTTP/1.1 or HTTP/2 ), whether to follow redirects, a proxy, an authenticator, etc.
public static void connect(String url) { HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(); // Prepare a request object HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet(url); // Execute the request HttpResponse response; try { response = httpclient.execute(httpget); // Examine the response status Log.i("Praeda",response.getStatusLine().toString()); // Get hold of the response entity HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity(); // If the response does not enclose an entity, there is no need // to worry about connection release if (entity != null) { // A Simple JSON Response Read InputStream instream = entity.getContent(); String result= convertStreamToString(instream); // now you have the string representation of the HTML request instream.close(); } } catch (Exception e) {} } private static String convertStreamToString(InputStream is) { /* * To convert the InputStream to String we use the BufferedReader.readLine() * method. We iterate until the BufferedReader return null which means * there's no more data to read. Each line will appended to a StringBuilder * and returned as String. */ BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is)); StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); String line = null; try { while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) { sb.append(line + "\n"); } } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } finally { try { is.close(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } return sb.toString(); }
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