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POSocketTimeoutException after converting from http to https in android app
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copied!<p>I am getting some problems after trying to convert my android app to use SSL to transport information between my android app and web server. (SocketTimeOutException)</p> <p>I have bought a Positive SSL certificate from a Certificate Authority (CA) and configured my server to work with it correctly. I have tested it in my web browser and its working correctly.</p> <p>Now I am trying to modify my android app to use https instead of http but as this is the first time I have used https myself, I am a little confused as to what steps I need to implement in the java code.</p> <p>Currently I am working on my settings page where I configure my app to use the correct url. For example I have 2 text fields on an activity where I enter the website url (http://www.mydomain.com) and the application folder that the relevant pages are stored in (myappfolder)</p> <p>I then use the following code to connect and test that the connection variables are configured correctly where validateurl.aspx is a webpage that returns a JSON string if the page exists:</p> <pre><code>protected boolean validateConnectionSettings() { String result = ""; boolean validated = false; try { StringBuilder urlBuilder = new StringBuilder(); urlBuilder.append(tvWebsiteURLValue.getText() + File.separator + tvApplicationMiddlewareValue.getText() + File.separator + "validateurl.aspx"); URL url = new URL(urlBuilder.toString()); URI uri = new URI(url.getProtocol(), url.getUserInfo(), url.getHost(), url.getPort(), url.getPath(), url.getQuery(), url.getRef()); url = uri.toURL(); URLConnection urlConn = url.openConnection(); BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader(urlConn.getInputStream())); String inputLine; while((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null){ result += inputLine; } in.close(); if(result.equals("exists")) { validated = true; } } catch (MalformedURLException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); Log.e(TAG, e.getMessage()); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); Log.e(TAG, e.getMessage()); } return validated; } </code></pre> <p>Now when I try converting the (http://www.mydomain.com) variable to use https I get the above mentioned java.net.SocketTimeoutException.</p> <p>I have googled this issue and seen that I should be implementing HttpsURLConnection instead of URLConnection in the above code so I have modified my code accordingly to the following:</p> <pre><code> protected boolean validateConnectionSettings() { String result = ""; boolean validated = false; try { StringBuilder urlBuilder = new StringBuilder(); urlBuilder.append(tvWebsiteURLValue.getText() + File.separator + tvApplicationMiddlewareValue.getText() + File.separator + "validateurl.aspx"); URL url = new URL(urlBuilder.toString()); URI uri = new URI(url.getProtocol(), url.getUserInfo(), url.getHost(), url.getPort(), url.getPath(), url.getQuery(), url.getRef()); url = uri.toURL(); // URLConnection urlConn = url.openConnection(); HttpsURLConnection urlConn = (HttpsURLConnection)url.openConnection(); BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader(urlConn.getInputStream())); String inputLine; while((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null){ result += inputLine; } in.close(); if(result.equals("exists")) { validated = true; } } catch (MalformedURLException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); Log.e(TAG, e.getMessage()); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); Log.e(TAG, e.getMessage()); } return validated; } </code></pre> <p>However I still recieve the java.net.SocketTimeoutException. Any Ideas what Im doing wrong?</p>

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