HttpClient hangs when doing a second request
I'm writing a java app that can login and shop around on the website. I'm having an issue where my HttpClient is hanging when I try to execute a second HttpResponse/Post. It was working fine before, not sure why it started hanging up. I don't get any errors, it just sits there and gets stuck. The only change I made that may be possibily causing this hang up is that I'm using HttpGet to retrieve tokens so I can login to the website.
Here's how I'm setting up the httpClient
private static BasicCookieStore cookieStore = new BasicCookieStore();
private static HttpClient httpClient = HttpClientBuilder.create().setDefaultCookieStore(cookieStore).build();
The rest is just a standard httpget & httppost, then httpclient.execute();
The first sequence is my program queries the website and retrieves the token, then I send a POST with the token to sign in. After that my program queries a website again to get product information, then adds to the cart. But it hangs at the second POST.
Could I be missing a flush somewhere? I was reading somewhere that this way of HttpClient closes itself. And the DefaultHttpClient has been deprecated.
Answer
In the tutorial posted it below, they did not mention I should use post.releaseConnection(); It caused my code to hangup, so I addeded the releaseConnection() function after every POST/GET. I hope that is the proper way to clean the code up.