here are two little helper methods I have made for downloading files. I have had to mix and match different tutorials of the web to get what I have here.
Now is there anything that I have done blatantly wrong here?
public static InputStream simplePostRequest(URL url, List<NameValuePair> postData) throws ClientProtocolException, IOException {
DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost postMethod=new HttpPost(url.toExternalForm());
postMethod.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(postData, HTTP.UTF_8));
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(postMethod);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
return entity.getContent();
}
public static InputStream simpleGetRequest(URL url, List<NameValuePair> queryString) throws ClientProtocolException, IOException {
Uri.Builder uri = new Uri.Builder();
uri.path(url.getPath());
for(NameValuePair nvp: queryString) {
uri.appendQueryParameter(nvp.getName(), nvp.getValue());
}
DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpHost host = new HttpHost(url.getHost());
HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(host, new HttpGet(uri.build().toString()));
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
return entity.getContent();
}
