HTTP get method returns http host connect exception

Question

Hello all,

I am trying to get the response from a URI using httpclient and httpget. when i am trying to execute the httpclient.execute method it is giving me the http host connect exception. However when i am passing the same URI to the XML parsing code as inputstream the code works fine. Does someone has any idea on the problem.. Help appreciated in advance

vaibhav

Answer 1

Are you behind a proxy? The HttpClient library probably uses a different way to configure the proxy than the XML library you are using. The following links may be useful, depending on the version of HttpClient you are using.

• http://cephas.net/blog/2007/11/14/java-commons-http-client-and-http-proxies/ (pre 4.0)
• http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hc-httpclient-users/200902.mbox/%[email protected]%3E (4.0)