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Http post request to php script

I have a java program which makes an http post request to a php script on my website. Here is the code. I am also using the new Apache HTTP Components API. Here is a link to the download -> http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi
public static void main(String args[]) throws ClientProtocolException, IOException
{
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("http://ftstoo.com/public_html/TheFinalTouchSecurity/Database/test.php");
List<BasicNameValuePair> parameters = new ArrayList<BasicNameValuePair>();
parameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("name", "Cannon"));
httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(parameters));
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpclient.execute(httppost);
HttpEntity resEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
// Get the HTTP Status Code
int statusCode = httpResponse.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
// Get the contents of the response
InputStream in = resEntity.getContent();
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
StringBuilder out = new StringBuilder();
String line;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
out.append(line);
}
System.out.println(out.toString()); //Prints the string content read from input stream
reader.close();
}
}
My test.php file is located at http://ftstoo.com/public_html/TheFinalTouchSecurity/Database/test.php
Here is my php code.
<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
echo "Success, . $name . !";
?>
The output I am getting when I run the java program is the html from a redirecting page on my website that says the page does not exist. I want the output to return a string that says "Success, Cannon!" I think there are probably several things I am doing wrong, but if someone could please give me a hand I would really appreciate it!

Corrupted Json in Android Eclipse

im having a strange problem when receiving json results from the server. I have no idea what the problem is. The thing is that my String json result is corrupted, with strange symbols.
The result is like this (taken from eclipse debug)
Image :
Another strange thing that happens is that when I change the URL of the service to an alternative one, it works and the data is not corrupted. The URLs are the same but once redirects everything to the other.
The URL is use always is (example) http://www.hello.com
The URL that works is http://www.hello.com.uy
(cant post the exact link for security reasons)
The second one redirects everything to the first one, its the only thing it does.
I have tried changing the encoding to UTF-8 and it is still not working, here is the code (with one of the URLs commented)
I have also tried using Dev HTTP Client extension from chrome to check the service and it works fine, no corrupted data. Also, it works perfectly on iOS so i think its just and android/java issue.
DevClient:
try {
JSONObject json = new JSONObject();
HttpParams httpParams = new BasicHttpParams();
HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(httpParams, 10000);
HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(httpParams, 10000);
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient(httpParams);
//String url = TAG_BASEURL_REST +"Sucursal";
String url = "http://www.-------.com/rest/Sucursal";
//String url = "http://www.--------.com.uy/rest/Sucursal";
HttpGet request = new HttpGet(url);
request.setHeader("Accept", "application/json");
request.setHeader("Content-type", "application/json");
HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
if (entity != null) {
InputStream is = entity.getContent();
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(is, "iso-8859-1"), 8);
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line = null;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line + "\n");
}
is.close();
String jsonRes = sb.toString();
JSONArray jObj = new JSONArray(jsonRes);
return jObj;
}
} catch (Throwable t) {
Log.i("Error", "Request failed: " + t.toString(), t);
}
return null;

InputStream is = entity.getContent();
// check if the response is gzipped
Header encoding = response.getFirstHeader("Content-Encoding");
if (encoding != null && encoding.getValue().equals("gzip")) {
is = new GZIPInputStream(is);
}

Internet request works the first time, but not on subsequent requests

On the first request it goes to the internet and retrieves the data. When I try it again, it just gives me the data that is already in the inputstream. How do I clear the cached data, so that it does a new request each time?
This is my code:
InputStreamReader in = null;
in = new InputStreamReader(url.openStream());
response = readFully(in);
url.openStream().close();

Recreate the URL object each time.

You can create a URLConnection and explicitly set the caching policy:
final URLConnection conn = (URLConnection)url.openConnection();
conn.setUseCaches(false); // Don't use a cached copy.
InputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(urlConnection.getInputStream());
See The Android URLConnection documentation for more details.

HttpClient API might be useful
address = "http://google.com"
String html = "";
HttpClient httpClient = DefaultHttpClient();
HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet(address);
BufferedReader in = null;
HttpResponse response = null;
response = httpClient.execute(httpget);
in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(response.getEntity().getContent()));
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer("");
String l = "";
String nl = System.getProperty("line.seperator");
while ((l = in.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(l + nl);
}
in.close();
html = sb.toString();
You'll need to catch some exceptions

Android Java strange issue building URL

So I'm building an URL to be called to get a JSON response but facing a strange issue. Building the URL as shown below returns "Not found" but for testing purposes I just built the URL as such "http://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/person?api_key=XXX&query=brad" and didn't append anything and that returned the correct response. Also tried not encoding "text" and same thing...Not found. Any ideas?
StringBuilder url = new StringBuilder();
url.append("http://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/person?api_key=XXX&query=").append(URLEncoder.encode(text, ENCODING));
Log.v("URL", url.toString());
try {
HttpGet httpRequest = null;
httpRequest = new HttpGet(url.toString());
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpResponse response = (HttpResponse) httpclient.execute(httpRequest);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
BufferedHttpEntity bufHttpEntity = new BufferedHttpEntity(entity);
InputStream input = bufHttpEntity.getContent();
String result = toString(input);
//JSONObject json = new JSONObject(result);
return result;

Try using the code I have below. I've copied and pasted it out of some code I use and I know it works. May not solve your problem but I think its worth a shot. I've edited it a little bit and it should just be copy and paste into your code now.
HttpGet request = new HttpGet(new URI(url.toString()));
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(response.getEntity().getContent(), "UTF-8"));
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
for (String line = null; (line = reader.readLine()) != null;) {
builder.append(line).append("\n");
}
JSONObject jResponse = new JSONObject(builder.toString());

Get web content

I'm trying to get XML content from an URL:
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpGet request = new HttpGet();
request.setURI(new URI("http://www.domain.com/test.aspx"));
HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);
in = response.getEntity().getContent();
When I write out the response content, this is truncated before the end of the content.
Any idea?

Did you use a InputStreamReader for the input stream in?
String s = "";
String line = "";
BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
try {
while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) { s += line; }
} catch (IOException e) {
// Handle error
}
// s should be the complete string

maybe i have solved, was the android emulator. Simply restarting it all works fine.
Thanks to all