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    copied!<p><strong>EDIT</strong> completely re-working the question for better understanding</p> <p>I have to query the given url <code>http://api.bf3stats.com/pc/player/</code> with 2 POST parameters: 'player' (for player name) and 'opt' (for options). I've tested it on <a href="http://www.requestmaker.com/" rel="noreferrer">http://www.requestmaker.com/</a> with following data: <code>player=Zer0conf&amp;opt=all</code>. I'm getting a correct JSON response (thought I don't know how their site performs the query, I guess it's php). Now I'm trying to do the same in Android:</p> <pre><code> private StringBuilder inputStreamToString(InputStream is) { //this method converts an inputStream to String representation String line = ""; StringBuilder total = new StringBuilder(); BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is)); try { while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) { total.append(line); } } catch (IOException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } return total; } </code></pre> <p>and that's how I make the request:</p> <pre><code> public void postData(String url, String name) { HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(); HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(url); try { List&lt;NameValuePair&gt; nameValuePairs = new ArrayList&lt;NameValuePair&gt;(2); //qname is a String containing a correct player name nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("player", qname)); nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("opt", "all")); httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs)); HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost); //test is just a string to check the result, which should be in JSON format test = inputStreamToString(response.getEntity().getContent()) .toString(); } catch (ClientProtocolException e) { } catch (IOException e) { } } </code></pre> <p>What I'm getting in the 'test" String is not JSON, but the complete HTML-markup of some bf3stats page. Any ideas what could be wrong with my request? </p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/zJXnx.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
 

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