Apache HTTPClient HttpGet returning nothing

Question

I'm doing a GET request with version 4.3.3 of Apache HttpClient, like this:

HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet("http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/it/forms/med1.pdf");
CloseableHttpClient client = HttpClients.createDefault();
CloseableHttpResponse response = client.execute(httpGet);
client.close();

The response status code tells me 200, and the content length as returned by response.getEntity().getContentLength() is 1213954, but the InputStream as returned from a call to:

response.getEntity().getContent()

...is reporting 0 bytes available.

I have been successfully making GET calls like this to retrieve and parse the HTML of other URLs, but is there something different I need to do here since it's file contents that I'm interested in?

if you want to download a file why don't you use this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8753583/download-a-file-through-an-http-get-in-java — shanavascet, Apr 21 '14 at 12:25
Just a quick guess: maybe it's cause your closing the client to early? Ie before getInputStram — Adam Gent, Apr 21 '14 at 12:32

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 21 '14 at 18:02

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The problem was that I was closing the http client too early i.e. client.close() before I tried to retrieve the response InputStream with a call to response.getEntity().getContent().

answered Apr 21 '14 at 18:02

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