Sending a post request to localhost

Question

I need to send a http post request from my android device to a web server that is running on my localhost:8080 and is being hosted by the google app engine.

the current code is this:

    try {

                HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("http://192.168.2.220:8080");
                httppost.setHeader("Content-type", "application/json");
                ResponseHandler <String> responseHandler = new BasicResponseHandler();
                StringEntity se = new StringEntity(object.toString()); 
           se.setContentEncoding(newBasicHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_TYPE,"application/json"));
                httppost.setEntity(se);
                System.out.println("Request Sent");
                String response = httpclient.execute(httppost, responseHandler);

                String temp = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity());



            } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {}
            catch (IOException e) {
            }
        }

I also tried setting:

    HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("http://10.0.2.2:8080");

In all cases, the response is null and the program force closes. am i sending the request correctly? can anyone please guide me here?

Thanks

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 22 '12 at 07:14

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'Send a request to localhost' means to send it to the local machine. In your case that would be the Android device. You want to send the request to your desktop machine, which is a remote host. The problem is that the Appengine dev_sever by default only binds to the local address, so it can't be accessed remotely (i.e., from your Android device). You need to pass the --address option to make accessible from the outside. Check your computer's IP and pass it as the address. Something like:

dev_appserver.cmd --address=192.168.2.220

Details here: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/tools/devserver.html

answered Mar 22 '12 at 07:14

Nikolay Elenkov

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Pass the --address option where exactly? – 0LLiena Jul 10 '14 at 13:45
For sending request to localhost from android device, Can we do Like this ./run.bat -b 0.0.0.0 or bind ip address has needed? – mubeen Jun 07 '15 at 10:26

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 10 '12 at 22:01

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The response of the httpclient.execute method needs to be return on a big HttpResponse variable, so changing "String" to "HttpResponse" will be ok.

HttpResponse response = (HttpResponse) httpclient.execute(httppost,responseHandler);

answered Oct 10 '12 at 22:01

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