AndroidHttpClient and DefaultHttpClient

Question

Is there much difference between those two and which one is preferably to use?

Answer 1

Based on the Android source code:

https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_frameworks_base/blob/gingerbread/core/java/android/net/http/AndroidHttpClient.java#L106

AndroidHttpClient is set to do the following extra settings:

1. Turn off stale checking, since the connections can break all the time.
2. Set ConnectionTimeout and SoTimeout (20 or 60 seconds)
3. Turn off redirecting.
4. Use a session cache for SSL sockets.
5. Use gzip compressed traffic between client and server if it's possible.
6. Doesn't retain cookies by default.