nobody has any idea ? On Jun 21, 10:33 am, MoxFulder <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > I'm new using android sdk/httpclient > > I'm writing a small application which needs httpclient lib, basically > to manage the cookie/session automatically. > The website I'm targeting needs a valid session, so, between each http > call, I need to send the cookie. Httpclient does it well. This is a tv > stream application and I have to fetch the channel url, the url has a > token parameter and I have to be logged / authenticated / (=> have a > valid cookie/sessionid) to fetch the channel url. > > I got the first cookie/sessionid with the first connection to the > website. The cookie is valid for a certain amount of time, there is no > "expires" but I don't know if there is any server cron to cleanup the > sessions. I assume I have to "ping" every x secondes to maintain the > session valid. > > Between each http call, the time could be from 1 sec to several > minutes, it depends if the user wants to change the watched tv > channel. The http call (to fetch the url) is not made by the UI > Thread. > > There are several possibilities to manage the httpclient : > - a single httpclient static singleton instance accessed by a custom > synchronized getClient() on an helper class => when / how to release > the http connection ? How to handle that correctly if the user got a > phone call / does not use the application for now (unvalidate during > onResume, etc)? > - Save the cookie (String serialized into SharedPreferences) and > create every time a new httpclient instance (then set the cookie to > the new instance) => overhead to get the http connection > - other ? > > I'm asking here what is the best way to implement that.
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