I am doing a http GET service call. I can see the data coming in chrome rest client, but I am getting error reply as follow
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>
<title>406 - Client browser does not accept the MIME type of the requested page.</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body{margin:0;font-size:.7em;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;background:#EEEEEE;}
fieldset{padding:0 15px 10px 15px;}
h1{font-size:2.4em;margin:0;color:#FFF;}
h2{font-size:1.7em;margin:0;color:#CC0000;}
h3{font-size:1.2em;margin:10px 0 0 0;color:#000000;}
#header{width:96%;margin:0 0 0 0;padding:6px 2% 6px 2%;font-family:"trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif;color:#FFF;
background-color:#555555;}
#content{margin:0 0 0 2%;position:relative;}
.content-container{background:#FFF;width:96%;margin-top:8px;padding:10px;position:relative;}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header"><h1>Server Error</h1></div>
<div id="content">
<div class="content-container"><fieldset>
<h2>406 - Client browser does not accept the MIME type of the requested page.</h2>
<h3>The page you are looking for cannot be opened by your browser because it has a file name extension that your browser does not accept.</h3>
</fieldset></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
URL which I am passing to getData.
http://ec2-50-19-105-251.compute-1.amazonaws.com/ad/Upload/getitemlist09122013014749.txt
My getData()::
public static String getData(String url) throws CustomException {
// http post
InputStream is = null;
StringBuilder sb = null;
String result = null;
HttpGet httppost;
try {
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
httppost = new HttpGet(url);
httppost.setHeader("Accept", "application/json");
httppost.setHeader("Content-type", "application/json");
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
is = entity.getContent();
Log.e("log_tag", "connection success ");
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e("log_tag", "Error in http connection" + e.toString());
throw new CustomException("Could not establish network connection");
}
// convert response to string
try {
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
int c;
byte buffer[] = new byte[1024];
while ((c = is.read(buffer)) > -1)
baos.write(buffer, 0, c);
byte[] data = baos.toByteArray();
is.close();
result = new String(data, 0, data.length, "utf-8");
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e("log_tag", "Error converting result " + e.toString());
throw new CustomException("Error parsing the response");
}
return result;
}
please help..
You explicitly set
httppost.setHeader("Accept", "application/json");which means that you only accept json as response. Most probably the server is trying to send you a reponse that it is not a json so it signals with 406. If you remove thehttppost.setHeader("Accept", "application/json")you may try to see what is the raw response and adjust the "Accept" header accordingly.EDIT: reposnse from the server is
text/plainso changing the "Accept" to "text/plain" will do the job