Question

Hi I am trying to make 2 GET requests to a single connection. ie

HttpGet get1 = new HttpGet("http://www.google.com/search?q=HelloWorld");
HttpGet get2 = new HttpGet("http://www.google.com/search?q=SecondSearch");

HttpResponse response = null;

response = client.execute(get1);
response = client.execute(get2);

I would like to get the body from the second execution. Obviously this fails, because it says you must release the connection first. I need to maintain the exact session – for instance, if I navigate to a site where the first step is to login, I need to navigate to any subsequent pages with the same cookie.

It’s probably something incredibly simple that I am doing wrong!

Answer 1

You need to use a CookieStore

CookieStore cookieStore = new BasicCookieStore();

DefaultHttpClient client1 = new DefaultHttpClient();
client1.setCookieStore(cookieStore);
HttpGet httpGet1 = new HttpGet("...");
HttpResponse response1 = client1.execute(httpGet1);

DefaultHttpClient client2 = new DefaultHttpClient();
client2.setCookieStore(cookieStore);
HttpGet httpGet2 = new HttpGet("...");
HttpResponse response2 = client2.execute(httpGet2);

In the above code, both client2 will re-use cookies from the client1 request.