Try putting it in onStartCommand() instead.  I haven't had any
problems doing posts from the service, but they all happen after the
onCreate method.

On Nov 5, 8:38 pm, Burk Ferden <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am trying to do a http post to a php script. the method works if I
> place it in the onCreate event of the application but gets a
> ConnectionTimeOut error when it tries to execute it from the service.
> Here is an example of my method
>
> String url = "http://myurl/"; +
>                 "?tmpl=javascript" +
>                 "&mode=recieved" +
>                 "&id=" + id;
>                 URI uri = null;
>                 try {
>                         url = url.replace(" ", "%20");
>                         uri = new URI(url);
>                 } catch (URISyntaxException e1) {
>                         // TODO Auto-generated catch block
>                         e1.printStackTrace();
>                 }
>                 HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(uri);
>                 HttpParams httpParameters = new BasicHttpParams();
>                 // Set the timeout in milliseconds until a connection is
> established.
>                 int timeoutConnection = 10000;
>                 HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(httpParameters,
> timeoutConnection);
>                 // Set the default socket timeout (SO_TIMEOUT)
>                 // in milliseconds which is the timeout for waiting for data.
>                 int timeoutSocket = 10000;
>                 HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(httpParameters, 
> timeoutSocket);
>
>                 DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new
> DefaultHttpClient(httpParameters);
>                 try {
>                         HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpGet);
>                 } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
>                         System.out.println(e.getLocalizedMessage());
>                         e.printStackTrace();
>                 } catch (IOException e) {
>                         System.out.println(e.getLocalizedMessage());
>                         e.printStackTrace();
>                 }
>
> I have no idea why the service would get a time out error but the
> application activity would not. I am baffled.

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