Question

I am writing an application where the user inputs song information that will then be viewed on a website. I am trying to get this HttpGet request to work. I really don’t need the server to return any information. I just need the information to store in the MySQL database. On the php side of things I use $_GET to pull the information. Am I approaching this the wrong way? Here is my android code:

public void executeHttpGet() throws Exception{
    BufferedReader in = null;
    try {
        HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
        HttpGet request = new HttpGet(
              "http://localhost:8888/?title=hello&artist=horray");
        HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);
        in = new BufferedReader
        (new InputStreamReader(response.getEntity().getContent()));
        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer("");
        String line = "";
        String NL = System.getProperty("line.separator");
        while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
            sb.append(line + NL);
        }
        in.close();
        String page = sb.toString();
        System.out.println(page);
        } finally {
        if (in != null) {
            try {
                in.close();
                } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

Why not try using a POST instead? Take a look at this article:

http://www.androidsnippets.com/executing-a-http-post-request-with-httpclient