I am writing an android application which uses a REST-based API on the server. So far the login works perfectly using HttpGet = I send the credentials, it sends me back a JSON response object containing session id or failure. I then moved onto using another get api (this one is passed the sessionid) and the response I get back looks like a valid one “200 – Ok” but the response body contains nothing – 0 text.
If I take the same URL and drop it into a browser, I get all the JSON text I expect displayed in the browser window. So what is the difference between a browser request/response and that of HttpGet? Any clues as to why my HttpGet might return a ‘valid’ nothing?
It turned out to be a server-side issue. They were actually sending me empty strings when the requester was not a browser. Too bad I can’t delete a question. 🙁