TCP connection is not reused for HTTP requests with HttpURLConnection

Question

I\'m have created an application which sends GET requests to a URL, and then downloads the full content of that page.

The client sends a GET to e.g. stackoverflow.c

Answer 1

Found the problem! I was not reading the input stream properly. This caused the input stream objects to hang, and they could not be reused.

I only defined it, like this:

InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream());

but I never read from it :-)

I changed the read method as well. Instead of a buffered reader I stole this:

InputStream in = null; 
String queryResult = "";
try {
     URL url = new URL(archiveQuery);
     HttpURLConnection urlConn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
     HttpURLConnection httpConn = (HttpURLConnection) urlConn;
     httpConn.setAllowUserInteraction(false);
     httpConn.connect();
     in = httpConn.getInputStream();
     BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(in);
     ByteArrayBuffer baf = new ByteArrayBuffer(50);
     int read = 0;
     int bufSize = 512;
     byte[] buffer = new byte[bufSize];
     while(true){
         read = bis.read(buffer);
         if(read==-1){
           break;
         }
         baf.append(buffer, 0, read);
     }
     queryResult = new String(baf.toByteArray());
     } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
          // DEBUG
          Log.e("DEBUG: ", e.toString());
     } catch (IOException e) {
          // DEBUG
          Log.e("DEBUG: ", e.toString());
     } 
}

From here: Reading HttpURLConnection InputStream - manual buffer or BufferedInputStream?