Question

In my application, I am trying to hit a URL which I do using the following code

  try {
    url = new URL(serverURL);

    httpURLConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

    int timeout = 30000;
    httpURLConnection.setConnectTimeout(timeout);
    httpURLConnection.setReadTimeout(timeout);

    httpURLConnection.connect();

    String httpResponseMessage = httpURLConnection.getResponseMessage();
    responseCode = httpURLConnection.getResponseCode();

    Log.i(LOG_TAG,"Response code "+responseCode);

    } catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
    }

The (confidential) URL when opened through browser (on computer as well as on phone), works perfectly and the response is as expected. But when I hit the same URL via the above piece of code, it gives me response code 404 (NOT FOUND). Can anybody tell me what the issue can be?
(Sorry, can not post the URL since is highly confidential.)

Answer 1

Problem solved 🙂

      try {

            url = new URL(serverURL);

            Log.i(LOG_TAG, url+"");
            HttpGet method= new HttpGet(new URI(serverURL));
            HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
            HttpGet request = new HttpGet();
            request.setURI(new URI(serverURL));
            HttpResponse response = client.execute(method);
            responseCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();

            Log.i(LOG_TAG,"Response code response "+response);
            Log.i(LOG_TAG,"Response responseCode "+responseCode);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }