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1. Reading and terminating stream in HttpClient 4    stackoverflow.com

I'm reading large documents from which I only need top 5%, can I do the following with HttpClient 4?

1. Request the page (get or post)
2. Read response as a stream
3. Feed it into SAX-based ...

2. HttpClient response handler always returns closed stream    stackoverflow.com

I'm new to Java development so please bear with me. Also, I hope I'm not the champion of tl;dr :). I'm using HttpClient to make requests over Http ...

3. Using httpClient from apache common with SSL    stackoverflow.com

I get an StreamCorrupedException when doing this :

response = httpClient.execute(httpFilePostrequest);

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