apache-httpclient-4.x

I am trying to get Apache HttpClient to fire an HTTP request, and then display the HTTP response code (200, 404, 500, etc.) as well as the HTTP response body (text string). It is important to note that I am using v4.2.2 because most HttpClient examples out there are from v.3.x.x and the API changed greatly from version 3 to version 4. Unfortunately I've only been able to get HttpClient returning the status code or the response body (but not both). Here's what I have: // Getting the status code. HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient(); HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet("http://whatever.blah.com

I'm using HttpClient for HTTPS requests, which has worked fine up until now. After upgrading to ICS, some users are reporting problems connecting on 3G connections. EDIT: Most of them seem to be using a proxy, and I can reproduce this locally with a T-Mobile SIM using their proxy. The logs have this stack trace: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Scheme 'http' not registered. org.apache.http.conn.scheme.SchemeRegistry.getScheme(SchemeRegistry.java:80) org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnectionOperator.openConnection(DefaultClientConnectionOperator.java:126) org.apache.http.impl.conn

I've come across EntityUtils.consume(httpEntity); and I'm not sure what it really does. For example: try { //... some code HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity(); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(http.Entity.getContent())); String line; while ((line = br.readLine())!= null) { System.out.println(line); } EntityUtils.consume(httpEntity); } catch (Exception e) { //code } finally { httpClient.getConnectionManager().shutdown(); } Why did the author put in EntityUtils.consume(httpEntity); when the finally block will close the connection and garbage collector

How to make HTTPClient use custom User-Agent header? The following code submits empty user-agent. What am I missing? import java.io.IOException; import org.apache.http.HttpEntity; import org.apache.http.HttpResponse; import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException; import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient; import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet; import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient; import org.apache.http.params.CoreProtocolPNames; import org.apache.http.protocol.BasicHttpContext; import org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext; import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;