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How to send Headers in Android

Thanks to all of you in advance :)
I want to send Headers in android to my shoutcast server.
I need to connect this address:
http://s7.voscast.com:8234
and get response. I response is
GET / HTTP/1.(0|1)
Then again send header pass=somePassword
And I want to check what will be the response for pass?

assuming that you are using import org.apache.http.client.*
it would be a simple:
HttpGet request = new HttpGet(url);
request.setHeader("X-AUTHORIZATION", token);
There are also methods like setEntity:
HttpPost request = new HttpPost(url);
request.addHeader("X-AUTHORIZATION", token);
request.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
StringEntity se = new StringEntity(jsonPost);
request.setEntity(se);
see: http://developer.android.com/reference/org/apache/http/client/HttpClient.html

HTTP Post Only works with default HttpClient, not with OkHttpClient

I'm working on a project which requires me to send a post request to
http://sagecell.sagemath.org/kernel (just a post, no data)along with two extra headers,
Accept-Encoding:identity and accepted_tos:true.
This works fine if using the default httpClient like so:
httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost();
String url = UrlUtils.getKernelURL();
httpPost.setURI(URI.create(url));
ArrayList<NameValuePair> postParameters = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
postParameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair(HEADER_ACCEPT_ENCODING,VALUE_IDENTITY));
postParameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair(HEADER_TOS,"true"));
httpPost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(postParameters));
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
InputStream inputStream = httpResponse.getEntity().getContent();
webSocketResponse = gson.fromJson(new InputStreamReader(inputStream), WebSocketResponse.class);
inputStream.close();
However if I want to use the same thing using the OkHttpClient, it gives me a 403 error:
httpClient = new OkHttpClient();
public static final MediaType jsonMediaType = MediaType.parse("application/json; charset=utf-8");
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(jsonMediaType, "");
Request request = new Request.Builder()
.addHeader(HEADER_ACCEPT_ENCODING, VALUE_IDENTITY)
.addHeader(HEADER_TOS, "true")
.url(url)
.post(body) //I've tried null here as well
.build();
Response response = httpClient.newCall(request).execute();
Log.i(TAG,"STATUS CODE"+response.code()); //This is 403
This is the same story with libraries like Ion and even HttpUrlConnection, only the Apache Client seems to work.
Any answers as to why this isn't working would be appreciated.

error 403 means its forbidden by the server.
And in the first case(while using default httpclient ) you are not adding header, you are just adding a name-value pair to the entity.
to add a header you should use
httpPost.addHeader("key","value");

Your request body is empty. You should provide a form-encoded request body, or a JSON request body, and the corresponding content type.
If you want, MimeCraft will build you a form-encoded request body, and Gson will do JSON.

Java Equivalent of curl query

I am trying to fetch current user info after making him log into his box, using the box sdk for android. In the box api documentation, they have mentioned everything using curls. I am not familiar with curl. So, can anyone please give me a java equivalent for this curl operation :
curl https://api.box.com/2.0/users/me-H "Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN".
I have the users access token.So, please give me a java equivalent for the above curl operation.

You can use java HttpClient
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(URL);
httpPost.setHeader("Authorization", "Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN"); // add headers if needded
//set params
BasicNameValuePair[] params = new BasicNameValuePair[] {new BasicNameValuePair("param1","param value"),
new BasicNameValuePair("param2","param value")};
UrlEncodedFormEntity urlEncodedFormEntity = new UrlEncodedFormEntity( Arrays.asList(params), "utf-8");
httpPost.setEntity(urlEncodedFormEntity);
//execute request
HttpResponse response = client.execute(httpPost);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
String body = EntityUtils.toString(entity); //here response in string you can parse it

The HttpClient object that the other answer proposes is now deprecated. I solved a CURL problem like yours (with the extra difficulty of uploading a .wav file). Check out my code in this this answer/question. How to upload a WAV file using URLConnection

Alternative for UrlEncodedFormEntity for sending data via POST

When sending the POST request using UrlEncodedFormEntity which takes List as input parameter along with the key, my request gets converted in the form of [key={json}] .
But the request i want to send should be in the form of key={json} , i.e not as List.
So, is there any alternative for the given method when using POST?
notes: webservice is working fine , and since it is json ,i cannot use Soap .
i ve tested it using POSTman and webservices are WCF(if thats of any use..)
if any code is required , please mention it.
Thanks in advance.
Edit code:
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost request = new HttpPost(URL);
List<NameValuePair> value=new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
value.add(new BasicNameValuePair("data",string));
//here it passes as List and here is where i want an alternate method
// by which i can send parameter as JSONobject
UrlEncodedFormEntity entity=new UrlEncodedFormEntity(value);
request.setEntity(entity);
HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);
HttpEntity entity2 = response.getEntity();
if(entity2.getContentLength() != 0) {
Reader tapReader = new InputStreamReader(response.getEntity().getContent());
char[] buffer = new char[(int) response.getEntity().getContentLength()];
tapReader.read(buffer);
tapReader.close();
JSONObject tapJsonObj = new JSONObject(buffer);

application/soap+msbin1 in android

I just need to send request to webservice via normal HTTP POST inorder to get response.I passed required parameter on body well.While i run it.,i got "Cannot process the message because the content type 'text/json' was not the expected type 'application/soap+msbin1'." error.When i made research over this.,due to "Web Service required the request to have a specific Content-Type, namely "application/soap+msbin1".When i replaced expected content type.,i got Bad Request error.I donno how to recover from that.
My code:
...
DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
ResponseHandler <String> resonseHandler = new BasicResponseHandler();
HttpPost postMethod = new HttpPost("My URL");
postMethod.setHeader( "Content-Type", "text/json");
postMethod.setHeader( "Cache-Control", "no-cache");
JSONObject json = new JSONObject();
json.put("userName", "My Username");
json.put("password", "My Password");
json.put("isPersistent",false);
postMethod.setEntity(new ByteArrayEntity(json.toString().getBytes("UTF8")));
HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(postMethod);
...

It looks like you are trying to call WCF SOAP service. That service expects correct SOAP communication (= no JSON) and moreover it uses MS binary message encoding of SOAP messages (that is what content type describes) is not interoperable so I doubt you will be able to use it on Android device (unless you find implementation of that encoding for Java / Android).

HttpPost request = new HttpPost(url);
StringEntity entity = new StringEntity(json.toString());
entity.setContentType("application/json;charset=UTF-8"); entity.setContentEncoding(new BasicHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_TYPE,"application/json;charset=UTF-8"));
request.setHeader("Accept", "application/json");
request.setEntity(entity);
try{
DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
response = httpClient.execute(request);
}
Try using something like this. it worked for me.
Thanks.
N_JOY.