Stopping silent retries in HttpURLConnection

Question

I\'m using HttpURLConnection on Android KitKat to POST some data to a server. The server takes a long time to respond, and the connection is silently retry

Answer 1

Android’s HTTP Clients

Prior to Froyo, HttpURLConnection had some frustrating bugs. In particular, calling close() on a readable InputStream could poison the connection pool. Work around this by disabling connection pooling:

private void disableConnectionReuseIfNecessary() {
    // HTTP connection reuse which was buggy pre-froyo
    if (Integer.parseInt(Build.VERSION.SDK) < Build.VERSION_CODES.FROYO) {
        System.setProperty("http.keepAlive", "false");
    }
}