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Subject: Re: Problems with HttpClient
From: Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk@apache.org>
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Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 18:31:00 +0200
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Anoop,

My guess is that some of the methods simply timeout while reading the
response from the server. Unfortunately, HttpClient does not handle this
situation well. Do not use HttpMethodBase#getResponseBody or
HttpMethodBase#getResponseBodyAsString methods. They are plain broken.
Both methods are made to ignore I/O errors and return null instead of
propagating IOException-s to the caller. Whoever designed those methods
did HttpClient a bad service. Use getResponseBodyAsStream and do the
reading from the input stream as you see fit

Cheers,

Oleg


On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 17:01, Anoop Adya wrote:
> Hi
> We have developed a client solution with the help of HttpClient.
> During the trial run we noticed that it works smoothly for clients and
> server within the same domain. However, if i try to use HttpClient over
> multiple domains, I get a NullPointerException as getResponseBody returns
> null.
> Do we need to do something special to handle cross domain requests?
> Note however that the user is in the same domain as the server we try to
> access.
> 
> Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> regards, Anoop.
> 
> 
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