Read input stream of HttpUrlConnection

[SPG]

Hi,

One of our servers responds to an HTTP request by streaming text through the
response. It send a header back that specifies the content-length = 0.

Unfortunately the HttpUrlConnection determines that there is no data to read
and closes the stream.

I am sure there must be a way around this.. Any ideas?

Steve

 

[Rogan Dawes]

Hi,

One of our servers responds to an HTTP request by streaming text through the
response. It send a header back that specifies the content-length = 0.

Unfortunately the HttpUrlConnection determines that there is no data to read
and closes the stream.

I am sure there must be a way around this.. Any ideas?

Steve

Hmmm. That's a tricky one. Let me see.

Oh, yes.

DON'T set the Content-Length header to 0 at the server! It is not
surprising that the UrlConnection terminates the connection if the
server says that it has no data.

If you have to stream data, perhaps a chunked encoded stream is a better
idea?