android httpclient hangs on second request to the server (connection timed out)

Question

I\'m struggling with the following problem: My App makes sequence of requests to the http server using HttpClient. I use HttpPut for sending data to the server. First reques

Answer 1

I thought I would elaborate on the other answers. I experienced this problem also. The problem was because I was not consuming content.

It seems if you don't then the connection will hold on to it and you are not able to send a new request with this same connection. For me it was a particularly difficult bug to spot as I was using the BasicResponseHandler provided in android. The code looks like this...

public String handleResponse(final HttpResponse response)
            throws HttpResponseException, IOException {
        StatusLine statusLine = response.getStatusLine();
        if (statusLine.getStatusCode() >= 300) {
            throw new HttpResponseException(statusLine.getStatusCode(),
                    statusLine.getReasonPhrase());
        }

        HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
       return entity == null ? null : EntityUtils.toString(entity);
    }

So if there is an status line above 300 then I don't consume the content. And there was content in my case. I made my own class like this...

public class StringHandler implements ResponseHandler{

    @Override
    public BufferedInputStream handleResponse(HttpResponse response) throws IOException {
    public String handleResponse(final HttpResponse response)
                throws HttpResponseException, IOException {
            StatusLine statusLine = response.getStatusLine();
           HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
            if (statusLine.getStatusCode() >= 300) {
                if (entity != null) {
                    entity.consumeContent();
                }
                throw new HttpResponseException(statusLine.getStatusCode(),
                        statusLine.getReasonPhrase());
            }


           return entity == null ? null : EntityUtils.toString(entity);
        }
    }

}

So basically in any case consume the content!