I'm using the exact same code in 2 programs, except for the storing of the POST data. In the first method (the one that works) I use NameValuePair, and in the other, I use StringEntity (doesn't work, but I also don't use any encoding). The reason I don't use encoding is because it completely messes up my String. The code with the StringEntity won't work though... Here's the code:

public static String sendNamePostRequest(String urlString, String nameField) {

    HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();

    HttpPost post = new HttpPost(urlString);

    StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();

    try {

        post.setEntity(new StringEntity(
                "__EVENTTARGET=&__EVENTARGUMENT=&__VIEWSTATE=%2FwEPDwULLTE3NDM5MzMwMzRkZA%3D%3D&__EVENTVALIDATION=%2FwEWBAL%2B%2B4CfBgK52%2BLYCQK1gpH7BAL0w%2FPHAQ%3D%3D&_nameTextBox=John&_zoekButton=Zoek&numberOfLettersField=3"));

        HttpResponse response = client.execute(post);
        HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                entity.getContent()));
        String in = "";

        while ((in = br.readLine()) != null) {
            sb.append(in + "\n");
        }

        br.close();

    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    return sb.toString();
}

This code does send the request (sniffed with wireshark to check), but doesn't return the appropriate HTML data. Any reason why this might be?

• android
• parsing
• http-post

Instead of using:

HttpResponse response = client.execute(post);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                entity.getContent()));

Remove HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity(); and do this:

HttpResponse response = client.execute(post);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                response.getEntity().getContent(), "UTF-8"));

For NameValuePair, check this link