Stopping silent retries in HttpURLConnection

Question

I'm using HttpURLConnection on Android KitKat to POST some data to a server. The server takes a long time to respond, and the connection is silently retrying 1 to 3 times before timing out. I don't want it to retry, since the server acts on all of the requests, resulting in Bad Things(TM).

I've tried System.setProperty("http.keepAlive", "false") before opening the connection, but that doesn't help.

Answer 1

For POST calls set

httpURLConnection.setChunkedStreamingMode(0);

and this should fix the silent retries. The bug report and workaround can be found here.