Sending an HTTP POST request through the android emulator doesn't work
- by Sotirios Delimanolis
I'm running a tomcat servlet on my local machine and an Android emulator with an app that makes a post request to the servlet. The code for the POST is below (without exceptions and the like):
String strUrl = "http://10.0.2.2:8080/DeviceDiscoveryServer/server/devices/";
Device device = Device.getUniqueInstance();
urlParameters += URLEncoder.encode("user", "UTF-8") + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(device.getUser(), "UTF-8");
urlParameters += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("port", "UTF-8") + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(new Integer(Device.PORT).toString(), "UTF-8");
urlParameters += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("address", "UTF-8") + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(device.getAddress().getHostAddress(), "UTF-8");
URL url = new URL(strUrl);
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
connection.setDoOutput(true);
connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
OutputStreamWriter wr = new OutputStreamWriter(connection.getOutputStream());
wr.write(urlParameters);
wr.flush();
wr.close();
Whenever this code is executed, the servlet isn't called. However if I change the type of the request to 'GET' and don't write anything to the outputstream, the servlet gets called and everything works fine. Am I just not making the POST correctly or is there some other error?
