Android - HttpUrlConnection is not closing. Eventually results to SocketException

Question

I am encountering some problems with the HttpUrlConnection in devices running Jellybean (4.1 - 4.3) wherein connections are not closed and results to a SocketException \"Too

Answer 1

I finally found a workaround. It seems that Jellybean is having an issue on "Keep-Alive" connections. I just added Connection=Close to my request header and now all is working. Doing a netstat, I see that the connections are now being closed and I no longer get the SocketException due to "Too many open files".