Need an example showing how to do async HTTP requests.

Question

Im using a web service, so I want to use an async thread for the HTTP authentication request and another thread later to make additional service requests while my main thread runs.

Would like to see a good example of how to do this and how to show busy messages somehow in main app. How does the main app know when the thread finished? And what if my thread encounters exceptions, how do I deal with that?

HTTP requests are sent later, use the same cookies setup up by the first auth request, so will the later requests pick up the same cookies and just work?

Answer 1

Look at here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2022170/how-to-execute-web-request-in-its-own-thread

Answer 2

Even better look here for the async part: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/828280/is-there-an-accepted-best-practice-on-making-asynchronous-http-requests-in-androi