Just to let you know I also had problems with URLConnection when using
https. Eeentually I had to switch to http client wich works fine.

Regards,
Siarhei

On Jan 29, 8:32 pm, Kai <kai.umez...@hotmail.jcom> wrote:
> Thank you very much for those suggestions, I will definitely take a
> look at them.
>
> Have your worked at all with httpS though? and if so, are there any
> differences in the implementation. As mentioned in the original post,
> I have no problem getting HTTP to work, it is only when I switch to
> HTTPS that I start having problems.
>
> On Jan 27, 2:46 pm, WoodManEXP <woodman...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hello,
>
> > I have done a lot of work with the Android communicating via http, Get
> > and Post, with servers. Most of it seems to work pretty much the same
> > as the org.apache.http.* libraries on other platforms (which is in
> > itself pretty neat!).
>
> > Couple of things that might be helpful
>
> > - Do the http work off the UI thread because of the way server
> > communication delays and times-out and such. Otherwise the Android app
> > manager will freak-out and the ANR dialog will appear (App not
> > responding).
>
> > - This may be wrong but our apps tend to create and dispose of
> > DefaultHttpClients often, rather then keeping them around for re-use.
> > We experienced problems trying to reuse object like these (kind of
> > like to describe with the java.io.IOExceptions)
>
> > On Jan 27, 11:30 am,Kai<kai.umez...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hi all,
>
> > > I'm in the middle of developing my first android application and have
> > > finally hit a significant roadblock that I can't seem to figure a way
> > > around.
>
> > > The application involves HTTPS posting from an activity within the app
> > > to my test server. While I've worked around accepting the self-signed
> > > certificate, the behavior of the post and response has been
> > > problematic and non-standard and so I'm wondering if this issue is
> > > android related and what some possible solutions might be.
>
> > > Essentially this transaction is completed on a click. On the click I
> > > create and connect a HttpsURLConnection to the server, setting
> > > DoOutput and DoInput to true. I get the connection output stream and
> > > wrap it in a  BufferedOutputStream. I write the transaction to the
> > > BuffStream, flush and close it.
>
> > > Then I handle the response. If the response is HTTP_OK, I get and wrap
> > > the connection input stream in a BufferedInputStream. I then take the
> > > input and put it into a byte array to be handled by the app and close
> > > the input stream.
>
> > > Now this all seems straight forward but when tested doesn't work
> > > properly. From the activity, the process is always successful on the
> > > first try, but then from the same activity if I wait a few seconds
> > > then click again, the same process will fail claiming a
> > > java.io.IOException(stream is closed), and then if I wait a few more
> > > seconds and try again it will work and this pattern continues on. To
> > > make things even more confusing, if I execute all of the clicks in
> > > rapid succession they will all work. It only complains if I wait in
> > > between transactions. I've come to think that the problem has
> > > something to do with Android HTTPS as when I try just a simple HTTP
> > > post, everything works fine. I also don't think it has anything to do
> > > with my custom certificate accepting as when I removed that and tried
> > > HTTPS posting to a trusted well known certificate, the problem still
> > > occurred.
>
> > > I'm leaning towards the thought that this has something to do with
> > > setting up and tearing down HTTPS connections in android, but as I do
> > > this all in an onClick event I'm not sure why I'm experiencing
> > > problems half the time. I'm also inclined to think its the inputStream
> > > that is having issues as the server seems to recieve the transactions.
>
> > > Anyone with any ideas as to what could be going wrong, or anyone who
> > > can outline how they went about setting up an HTTPS post on click
> > > would be greatly appreciated!
>
> > > Thanks so much for your time and consideration.

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