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    copied!<p>I'm new to Java development so please bear with me. Also, I hope I'm not the champion of <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tl;dr" rel="nofollow noreferrer">tl;dr</a> :).</p> <p>I'm using <a href="http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi" rel="nofollow noreferrer">HttpClient</a> to make requests over Http (duh!) and I'd gotten it to work for a simple servlet that receives an URL as a query string parameter. I realized that my code could use some refactoring, so I decided to make my own <code>HttpResponseHandler</code>, to clean up the code, make it reusable and improve exception handling.</p> <p>I currently have something like this:</p> <pre><code>public class HttpResponseHandler implements ResponseHandler&lt;InputStream&gt;{ public InputStream handleResponse(HttpResponse response) throws ClientProtocolException, IOException { int statusCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode(); InputStream in = null; if (statusCode != HttpStatus.SC_OK) { throw new HttpResponseException(statusCode, null); } else { HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity(); if (entity != null) { in = entity.getContent(); // This works // for (int i;(i = in.read()) &gt;= 0;) System.out.print((char)i); } } return in; } } </code></pre> <p>And in the method where I make the actual request:</p> <pre><code>HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(); HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet(target); ResponseHandler&lt;InputStream&gt; httpResponseHandler = new HttpResponseHandler(); try { InputStream in = httpclient.execute(httpget, httpResponseHandler); // This doesn't work // for (int i;(i = in.read()) &gt;= 0;) System.out.print((char)i); return in; } catch (HttpResponseException e) { throw new HttpResponseException(e.getStatusCode(), null); } </code></pre> <p>The problem is that the input stream returned from the handler is <em>closed</em>. I don't have any idea why, but I've checked it with the prints in my code (and no, I haven't used them both at the same time :). While the first print works, the other one gives a closed stream error. </p> <p>I need <code>InputStreams</code>, because all my other methods expect an <code>InputStream</code> and not a <code>String</code>. Also, I want to be able to retrieve images (or maybe other types of files), not just text files.</p> <p>I can work around this pretty easily by giving up on the response handler (I have a working implementation that doesn't use it), but I'm pretty curious about the following:</p> <ol> <li><em>Why</em> does it do what it does?</li> <li>How do I open the stream, if <em>something</em> closes it?</li> <li>What's the right way to do this, anyway :)?</li> </ol> <p>I've checked the docs and I couldn't find anything useful regarding this issue. To save you a bit of Googling, here's the <a href="http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-4.0.1/httpclient/apidocs/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Javadoc</a> and here's the <a href="http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-4.0.1/tutorial/html/fundamentals.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">HttpClient tutorial</a> (Section 1.1.8 - Response handlers).</p> <p>Thanks,<br> Alex</p>
 

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