This article looks like exactly what i was looking for. thank you On Jul 7, 9:01 pm, Charlie Collins <[email protected]> wrote: > Check for the status of the network before making the call, and also > set a connection timeout in case it drops after/during: > > http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2007/09/10/urlopenstream-might-leave... > > You might want to look at the Apache HttpClient stuff Android comes > with too, you have a much more robust library there that can handle > all kinds of things, as opposed to raw URL class and streams. > > Here is an example of using the HttpClient > stuff:http://code.google.com/p/and-bookworm/source/browse/trunk/src/com/tot... > > On Jul 7, 2:54 pm, Boozel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I'm trying to get an HTTP response using > > BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new > > InputStreamReader(url.openStream())); > > but if no internet connection is present the app hangs here. > > Can any one give me a way to prevent this? > > Thanks
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