HttpsURLConnection and intermittent connections

Question

I'm hoping someone could help me out with intermittent connections I'm getting using code with HttpsURLConnection. The code I'm using is below:

HttpsURLConnection conn = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection();
            conn.setReadTimeout(10 * 1000); 
if conn.getResponseCode() != 200) { 
            Log.v(TAG, "error code:" + conn.getResponseCode()); 
} 

The connection works the first time everytime when I use it to pull a json file. However, when I use the connection again to send a command, it always fails the first time. It then typically works if I send the command quickly ( within 5 seconds), but fails if I wait a while. I don't think its a SSL issue because it connects the first time correctly, but I could be wrong here. I also tried many different variations such as adding:

conn.setUseCaches(false); 
conn.setRequestProperty("Connection","Keep-Alive"); 
conn.getHostnameVerifier(); 
conn.getSSLSocketFactory(); 
conn.setDoOutput(true); 
conn.setDoInput(true); 
conn.setRequestMethod("POST"); 
conn.wait(100); 

However, I had no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Try System.setProperty("http.keepAlive", "false"); before you do

HttpsURLConnection conn = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection();