What's the recommended way to get the HTTP response as a String when using Apache's HTTP Client? [duplicate]

Answer 1

You can do something like:

Reader in = new BufferedReader(
        new InputStreamReader(response.getEntity().getContent(), "UTF-8"));

Using the reader you will be able to build your string. But if you are using SAX you can give the stream to the parser directly. This way you will not have to create the string and your memory footprint will be lower too.