I’m trying to parse some html using jsoup (1.3.3) in my android activity. When

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Asked: May 18, 20262026-05-18T06:44:44+00:00 2026-05-18T06:44:44+00:00

I’m trying to parse some html using jsoup (1.3.3) in my android activity. When

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I’m trying to parse some html using jsoup (1.3.3) in my android activity. When I call this code

Jsoup.connect("http://www.google.com").get();

It works fine in android 2.1 and 2.2 but in 1.6 I get a “java.io.IOException: 403 Error loading URL”.

I’m using the emulator to test this and I’ve noticed that admob ads are also not showing in 1.6 but they work in 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2.

Using the web browser in the 1.6 emulator does work so I’m pretty confident the problem is in my code somewhere.

Is there some extra permission I need for internet access in 1.6 that you don’t need in 2.0+?

This is how my manifest file is structured, does the position of the uses-permission tag have any effect?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  package="com.foo.bar"
  android:versionCode="1"
  android:versionName="1.0"
  android:installLocation="auto">

<application android:icon="@drawable/icon" 
android:label="@string/app_name" 
android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar" 
android:name="blahblah" 
android:description="@string/app_desc">

    <activity android:label="@string/app_name" android:name=".activities.MainMenu">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

<activity android:name=".activities.FullList" android:label="@string/app_name"/>

<!-- The application's publisher ID assigned by AdMob -->
<meta-data android:value="blahblahblah" android:name="ADMOB_PUBLISHER_ID" />

</application>
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="4"/>

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"></uses-permission>

</manifest>

I’ve tried creating a new project from scratch with just a hello world screen that uses the Jsoup.connect() method and that works fine on the same 1.6 emulator, so it must be a code problem but I can’t figure it out.