How should I handle server timeouts and error code responses to an http post in Android App?

Question

My Android App does http posts to URLs like http://example.com/abc.php?email=abc@xyz.com So the Android App basically talks to PHPs on the server side and receives JSON response

Answer 1

As Kaj said in the comment, one option is to catch the exception, and perhaps retry or post a failure message.

For response codes != 200, just read them an do your job inside an if (con.getResponseCode() == 200) block

Another alternative option, is to use the much nicer Apache classes:

http://developer.android.com/reference/org/apache/http/package-summary.html

For a snippet, check BalusC's tutorial here in SO: Using java.net.URLConnection to fire and handle HTTP requests