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HttpPost return a empty body

I have the code below, and my problem is that the response.status is 200 (is ok) and my response body is empty and it should return a json response. Is the problem the length maybe?:`
HttpPost post = new HttpPost("http://localhost:8080/rest/login");
httpClient = HttpClients.createDefault();
List<NameValuePair> formParams = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
NameValuePair pair = new BasicNameValuePair("token",token);
formParams.add(pair);
UrlEncodedFormEntity entity = new UrlEncodedFormEntity(formParams);
post.setEntity(entity);
HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(post);
this.code = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
InputStream body = response.getEntity().getContent();
BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(response.getEntity().getContent()));`

I had similar problem. In my case it was also very strange, that when url contained IP instead of hostname, it worked (I get the nonempty response).
However, setting netscape cookie specs helped in my case.
httpClientBuilder.setDefaultRequestConfig(RequestConfig.custom()
.setCookieSpec(CookieSpecs.NETSCAPE)
.build());

How to parse/query a static html page using java and httpclient

Here is the Http Post request using the HttpClient API.This piece of code lets me fetch the entire page content in the raw html format.My requirement is to send some parameters to this method such that it fetches only required data(like in a database) in readable format.By 'readable' I mean without the html tags.I dont know if JSON has to be brought in here.
I went through JSoup , but it seems to be doing the job of a scraper.
So how should I proceed with the html content I currently have?
private void sendPost() throws Exception {
String url = "https://www.elitmus.com/jobs";
HttpClient client = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
HttpPost post = new HttpPost(url);
// add header
post.setHeader("User-Agent", USER_AGENT);
List<NameValuePair> urlParameters = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
urlParameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("sn", "C02G8416DRJM"));
urlParameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("cn", ""));
urlParameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("locale", ""));
urlParameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("caller", ""));
urlParameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("num", "12345"));
post.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(urlParameters));
HttpResponse response = client.execute(post);
System.out.println("\nSending 'POST' request to URL : " + url);
System.out.println("Post parameters : " + post.getEntity());
System.out.println("Response Code : " +
response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode());
BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(response.getEntity().getContent()));
StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();
String line = "";
while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
result.append(line);
}
System.out.println(result.toString());
}
}

Curl to Java Post

How do I do a HTTP GET POST PUT DELETE Request using Java?
I'm using CouchDB and I can post data using cUrl into the database. How do I do the same thing using Java however I cannot find any information on this with good documentation.
curl -X PUT http://anna:secret#127.0.0.1:5984/somedatabase/
Could some please change this cUrl request to Java. Otherwise please recommend me libraries to do so.
Thank You.

You can use HttpClient by Apache.
Here is an example usage of how to call a POST request
String url = "https://your.url.to.post.to/";
HttpClient client = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
HttpPost post = new HttpPost(url);
List<NameValuePair> urlParameters = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
urlParameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("param1", "value1"));
post.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(urlParameters));
HttpResponse response = client.execute(post);
System.out.println("Response Code : "
+ response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode());
BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(response.getEntity().getContent()));
StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();
String line = "";
while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
result.append(line);
}
I do recommend that you check this article for more examples.

how to set parameters to server from android application?

I have the following code to connect from my android application to zappos api server and search for some stuff. But It either returns error 404 or We are unable to process the request from the input feilds given.
When I execute the same query it works on the web browser.
The query is:
http://api.zappos.com/Search&term=boots&key=<my_key_inserted_here>
Code:
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost post = new HttpPost("http://api.zappos.com/Search");
NameValuePair keypair = new BasicNameValuePair("key",KEY);
NameValuePair termpair = new BasicNameValuePair("term",data);
List<NameValuePair> params = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(2);
params.add(keypair);
params.add(termpair);
post.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(params));
HttpResponse response = client.execute(post);
String str;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
HttpEntity entity =response.getEntity();
if (entity != null) {
DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(entity.getContent());
while (( str = in.readLine()) != null){
sb.append(str);
}
in.close();
}
Log.i("serverInterface","response from server is :"+sb.toString());
What am I doing wrong?

If I am correct, what you want to do is a GET request with parameters.
Then,the code would looks like something like that:
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpGet get = new HttpGet("http://api.zappos.com/Search");
HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams();
params.setParameter("key", "KEY");
params.setParameter("term", "data");
get.setParams(params);
HttpResponse response;
response = client.execute(get);
String str;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
if (entity != null) {
DataInputStream in;
in = new DataInputStream(entity.getContent());
while ((str = in.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(str);
}
in.close();
}
Log.i("serverInterface", "response from server is :" + sb.toString());

I found an answer to the question based on ALL of your help. I got the hint that I must search how to connect to REST service and I also used this result. This is the exact result I was looking for. Sadly it resembles too much to what I'm trying to achieve that I think whoever asked it might be applying to the same position :(

Android: HttpPost not work

Hi guy's (sorry for my english error :P ) i have a problem, I'm trying to post a variable (id_art) to a php page, the problem is that I can't understand if the variable is not sent properly, or if I read it wrong php side.
JAVA CODE:
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(myurl);
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
String json, result = "";
//Build jsonObject
JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject();
jsonObject.accumulate("id_articolo", id_art);
//Convert JSONObject to JSON to String
json = jsonObject.toString();
//Set json to StringEntity
StringEntity se = new StringEntity(json);
//Set httpPost Entity
httpPost.setEntity(se);
//Set some headers to inform server about the type of the content
httpPost.setHeader("Accept", "application/json");
httpPost.setHeader("Content-type", "application/json");
//Execute POST request to the given URL
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpclient.execute(httpPost);
//Receive response as inputStream
StatusLine statusLine = httpResponse.getStatusLine();
int statusCode = statusLine.getStatusCode();
//Convert input stream to string
if (statusCode == 200){
HttpEntity entity = httpResponse.getEntity();
InputStream content = entity.getContent();
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(content));
String line="";
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
builder.append(line);
result = builder.toString();
}
System.out.println("DEBUG"+" "+result);
PHP CODE
<?php
include_once('configurazione.php');
header("Content-Type: application/json");
mysql_set_charset('utf8');
$value = json_decode(stripslashes($_POST),true);
var_dump($value);
?>
result is NULL... Why ????
Tnks 4 help
EDIT 1
I try to edit my php code replacing
this : json_decode(stripslashes($_POST),true);
with: $value = json_decode($_POST);
But the result is the same.. NULL
EDIT 2
I try to replace
in .JAVA
httpPost.setEntity(new StringEntity(yourJson.toString(),"UTF-8"));
in .PHP
$value = json_decode(file_get_contents('php://input'));
echo $value ;
but result is NULL

in .JAVA
httpPost.setEntity(new StringEntity(yourJson.toString(),"UTF-8"));
in .PHP
$value = file_get_contents('php://input');
var_dump(json_decode($value , true));

try with this
in .JAVA
List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(1);
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("json", yourJson.toString()));
httpPost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));
in .PHP
$value = $_POST['json'];
var_dump(json_decode($value , true));

I believe you cannot simply send StringEntity, because POST parameters are expected to be key=>value pairs. That means you need to give a name to your parameter, let's say json.
Then you can do this:
JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject();
// here you can set up the data
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(URL);
List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(2);
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("json", jsonObject.toString()));
// here you can add more POST data using nameValuePairs.add()
httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
On the PHP side, you'll just do
$value = json_decode($_POST['json'], true);
var_dump($value);