Content of HTTPUrlConnection

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How can I retrieve the whole content of a the response of a HTTPUrlConnection (including headers and body)? E.g.

Statuscode: 200
Content-length: 1582
Content-type: tex/html

<html>
<body>
...
</body>
</html>

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You can get the headers through the various getHeaderField(s) methods of HttpURLConnection and its superclass. I don't think you can get the entire dump of the return short of connecting directly with a socket, making a request and reading the response.

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I've done it the socket route. It's a bit of a pain because you have to construct all headers for the request, too. Get an HTTP sniffer and watch what's going over the wire both ways to see what the headers look like. You may be able to catch a set from the sniffer and copy them right into your code to send them again later.

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