Android's HttpURLConnection throws EOFException on HEAD requests

Question

This small code snippet runs fine on my Mac\'s JVM. Unfortunately it crashes when executed on Android 4.2.

import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net         


        

Answer 1

Turned out this is a known bug in Android's class implementation. Calling Connection.setRequestProperty( "Accept-Encoding", "" ); before connecting can be used as workaround.

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=24672