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Android HttpResponseCache and "Authorization" request header

I'm trying to get HttpResponseCache to cache responses to requests that include an "Authorization" header. I'm including this header because the API I am calling uses basic authentication.
HttpUrlConnection connection = initialiseConnection();
String usernameAndPasswordString = Base64.encodeToString(String.format("%s:%s", username, password).getBytes(), Base64.NO_WRAP);
connection.setRequestProperty("Authorization", String.format("basic %s", usernameAndPasswordString));`
To test this, I'm making the request with WiFi turned on. I'm then turning off WiFi and data and making the request again. I then get a FileNotFoundException when trying to read the response body.
InputStream inputStream = new BufferedInputStream(connection.getInputStream());
If I do the same thing but without the "Authorization" header (to an app on a different server that doesn't use basic auth), my code is able to read the response from the cache.
I am aware that an HTTP cache is not meant to cache a response that was the result of a request including an "Authorization" header, but does that mean that I just can't cache any responses from this server without writing my own cache? Is there any known way around this or to override this behaviour in HttpUrlConnection / HttpResponseCache?
Thanks in advance!

I managed to get to the bottom of this by going through the source code of HttpResponseCache (via https://github.com/candrews/HttpResponseCache, a custom version of the class by candrews taken from the Android source :) ). Including "public", "must-revalidate" or "s-maxage" directives in the Cache-Control header of the response will allow caching by HttpResponseCache even if the Authorization header was included in the request.

Android Https signing parameters

Good day!
I have a trouble with sending https request from android application with signing parameters.
I have source which allows me to send secure http request, but authentification does not work.
I need to send request to some url with port number.
By using
HttpEntity entity = new UrlEncodedFormEntity(params, "utf-8");
After this, I retrieve this parameters in string format like
param2=param1&param2=param2%20p - encoded format
Next I need take md5 hash and again introduce it in httpbody param without encoding
Example of request:
HTTP method - POST
Headers: Content-Length - 275
Content-Type - application/x-www-form-urlencoded
параметры в HTTP body -
PHONE=2583838&ORDER_STATE_ID=31&SOURCE=улица%20Жандосова,%20188&DESTINATION=Тепличная%20улица,%202а&CLIENTID=62&SOURCE_TIME=20130807120054&IS_PRIOR=true&NOTE=This%20is%20comment&PHONE_TO_DIAL=8(701)746-90-26&CUSTOMER=Anna%20Ahmatova&signature=ed4aaef27e2d46a46f449903f3524788
Help me please. This post request working but everytime I have trouble with authentification

Android failing to send large json string through Http Post

I am trying to send an image as a base64 to a php based web service. The image that I am sending is around 500 kb . I am first compressing the image and then converting the image into base64 string. But the image is not being sent. If i try it through Fiddler, I am successful in sending the image. Is there anyway to increase the http post request call of android? I am using the following libraries: DefaultHttpClient and HttpPost.

In my case , adding UTF-8 solved my problem
StringEntity se;
se = new StringEntity(json.toString(),"UTF-8");
httppostreq.setEntity(se);
response = client.execute(httppostreq);

Android app getting data from a third-party JSP & Servlet

I'm writing an Android app that should get data from a certain web application. That web app is based on Servlets and JSP, and it's not mine; it's a public library's service. What is the most elegant way of getting this data?
I tried writing my own Servlet to handle requests and responses, but I can't get it to work. Servlet forwarding cannot be done, due to different contexts, and redirection doesn't work either, since it's a POST method... I mean, sure, I can write my own form that access the library's servlet easily enough, but the result is a jsp page.. Can I turn that page into a string or something? Somehow I don't think I can.. I'm stuck.
Can I do this in some other way? With php or whatever? Or maybe get that jsp page on my web server, and then somehow extract data from it (with jQuery maybe?) and send it to Android? I really don't want to display that jsp page in a browser to my users, I would like to take that data and create my own objects with it..

Just send a HTTP request programmatically. You can use Android's builtin HttpClient API for this. Or, a bit more low level, the Java's java.net.URLConnection (see also Using java.net.URLConnection to fire and handle HTTP requests). Both are capable of sending GET/POST requests and retrieving the response back as an InputStream, byte[] or String.
At most simplest, you can perform a GET as follows:
InputStream responseBody = new URL("http://example.com").openStream();
// ...
A POST is easier to be performed with HttpClient:
List<NameValuePair> params = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(2);
params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("name1", "value1"));
params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("name2", "value2"));
HttpPost post = new HttpPost("http://example.com");
post.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(params));
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpResponse response = client.execute(post);
InputStream responseBody = response.getEntity().getContent();
// ...
If you need to parse the response as HTML (I'd however wonder if that "public library service" (is it really public?) doesn't really offer XML or JSON services which are way much easier to parse), Jsoup may be a life saver as to traversing and manipulating HTML the jQuery way. It also supports sending POST requests by the way, only not as fine grained as with HttpClient.

http async response for large response

I'm familiar with android HTTPURLConnection and apache HTTPConnection classes and the way they work (they are all synchronous, but I can live with that).
I have a large response with many lines of data comming from the server. It's a JSON response and I can display the data partially before I parsed all the response. Some json parsers allow that (like xcers allows for xml). Do the callbacks and methods related to the two classes mentioned above allow it? When I get the response from HTTPURLConnection upon opening input stream and read, do I open the stream when ALL the data is already there? Or can I open and read it and more that should follow?
Also, is there any http method on android that works with NIO?

With HttpClient, when you open the response stream like this:
HttpGet request = new HttpGet();
request.setURI(new URI(url));
HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
InputStream stream = entity.getContent();
and start reading, you actually start the downloading and you get new bytes as soon as these are received. You don't wait for everything to get downloaded to start reading.
As far as I know the HttpClient that is bundled with Android is not based on NIO. I don't know of any alternative that does so.

In addition to all of the possible solutions in Ladlestein's comment, there's the simple answer of wrapping all that in an AsyncTask. Here is a sample project demonstrating doing an HTTP request using HttpClient in an AsyncTask.