I know and I did. But as I say, even if I increase the timeout (up to 1 minute) I got the exact same issue. Forget to mention that if I do the exact same request with the browser, it works as expected and almost instantly...
On Tuesday, November 6, 2012 3:12:09 PM UTC+1, RichardC wrote: > > On a mobile device you must always expect some timeouts due to the > unreliability of the connection. So you must code for this. > > On Tuesday, November 6, 2012 10:22:16 AM UTC, Thomas Bouron wrote: >> >> Hello. >> >> I'm facing an issue that I cannot get a rid of it. Let me explain: >> I use for my app the AndroidHttpClient to make connection to a REST >> server. Everything works as expected except for a few of my users. At some >> point, my code throws an SocketTimeoutException. So I search all over the >> web and I found that it seems to be related to the DNS lookup. The solution >> to counter part is to use HttpURLConnection. >> >> Now the funny part: On the emulator at home, everything is fine, >> impossible to reproduce the issue. But on the emulator at work (behind a >> transparent proxy) I got a really weird behavior. Sometimes it works, >> sometimes not. Event if I change the AndroidHttpClient >> to HttpURLConnection, I got the same result. Increasing the timeout doesn't >> solve the problem either, it just increase the time before reaching >> the SocketTimeoutException. Regarding to my research, i also tried to >> change the URL by the IP of the REST server but nothing changed. >> >> So now I got any idea left, that's why I'm posting here. Is anyone >> already caught that? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en