Why do I get the proper URL response from a browser, but empty within Android's "HttpGet"?

Question

I am writing an android application which uses a REST-based API on the server. So far the login works perfectly using HttpGet = I send the credentials, it sends me back a JSON response object containing session id or failure. I then moved onto using another get api (this one is passed the sessionid) and the response I get back looks like a valid one "200 - Ok" but the response body contains nothing - 0 text.

If I take the same URL and drop it into a browser, I get all the JSON text I expect displayed in the browser window. So what is the difference between a browser request/response and that of HttpGet? Any clues as to why my HttpGet might return a 'valid' nothing?

Answer 1

Thats my pull() I have written

mHttpGet.setURI(url.toURI());
mResponse = mHttpClient.execute(mHttpGet);
mResponse.getEntity().getContent(); // returns inputstream

How did you do yours?!

Answer 2

It turned out to be a server-side issue. They were actually sending me empty strings when the requester was not a browser. Too bad I can't delete a question. :(