My program contains the following line, and just hangs at this point, and I\'m not quite sure why.
PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager connectionManager = new Po
Do you also have httpcore jar? (version 4.3 as well) I've found that class there.
Maybe you forgot to include/download HttpCore
http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi
The org.apache.http.config.Lookup class is not in httpclient-4.3.1.jar. It is in httpcore-4.3.jar.
If you are not using Maven, to understand the httpclient dependencies, see http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-4.3.x/httpclient/dependencies.html