I\'m communicating with an API that I can not change that sends a 400 response when a request is not validated on the API side. It is a valid HTTP request, but the request data
This is how I send and get Http response as an byte[].Of course you can change it to string if you want.
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
httppost = new HttpPost("http://www.rpc.booom.com");
postParameters = new ArrayList();
postParameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("debug_data","1"));
postParameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("client_api_ver", "1.0.0.0"));
postParameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("device_identificator", deviceId));
postParameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("device_resolution", resolution));
postParameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("username_hash", hashUser(username,password)));
postParameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("password_hash", hashPass(username,password)));
httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(postParameters));
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
Log.w("Response ","Status line : "+ response.getStatusLine().toString());
buffer = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity()).getBytes();
Hope it helps!