Example usage for org.apache.commons.httpclient HttpClient HttpClient

Introduction

In this page you can find the example usage for org.apache.commons.httpclient HttpClient HttpClient.

Prototype

public HttpClient(HttpClientParams paramHttpClientParams, HttpConnectionManager paramHttpConnectionManager) 

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Usage

From source file:de.ingrid.iplug.opensearch.communication.OSCommunication.java

/**
 * Send a request with all parameters within the "url"-String.
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 * @param url is the URL to request including the parameters
 * @return the response of the request
 */
public InputStream sendRequest(String url) {
    try {
        HttpClientParams httpClientParams = new HttpClientParams();
        HttpConnectionManager httpConnectionManager = new SimpleHttpConnectionManager();
        httpClientParams.setSoTimeout(30 * 1000);
        httpConnectionManager.getParams().setConnectionTimeout(30 * 1000);
        httpConnectionManager.getParams().setSoTimeout(30 * 1000);

        HttpClient client = new HttpClient(httpClientParams, httpConnectionManager);
        method = new GetMethod(url);

        // set a request header
        // this can change in the result of the response since it might be 
        // interpreted differently
        //method.addRequestHeader("Accept-Language", language); //"de-DE,de;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4");

        int status = client.executeMethod(method);
        if (status == 200) {
            log.debug("Successfully received: " + url);
            return method.getResponseBodyAsStream();
        } else {
            log.error("Response code for '" + url + "' was: " + status);
            return null;
        }
    } catch (HttpException e) {
        log.error("An HTTP-Exception occured when calling: " + url);
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        log.error("An IO-Exception occured when calling: " + url);
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return null;
}

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