AndroidHttpClient类的分析，与DefaultHttpClient的区别

AndroidHttpClient is set to do the following extra settings:

1. Turn off stale checking, since the connections can break all the time.
2. Set ConnectionTimeout and SoTimeout (20 or 60 seconds)
3. Turn off redirecting.
4. Use a session cache for SSL sockets.
5. Use gzip compressed traffic between client and server if it's possible.
6. Doesn't retain cookies by default.

Important Code:

     // Default connection and socket timeout of 60 seconds.  Tweak to taste.
    private static final int SOCKET_OPERATION_TIMEOUT = 60 * 1000;

 

public static AndroidHttpClient newInstance(String userAgent, Context context) {
        HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams();

        // Turn off stale checking.  Our connections break all the time anyway,
        // and it's not worth it to pay the penalty of checking every time.
        HttpConnectionParams.setStaleCheckingEnabled(params, false);

        HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(params, SOCKET_OPERATION_TIMEOUT);
        HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(params, SOCKET_OPERATION_TIMEOUT);
        HttpConnectionParams.setSocketBufferSize(params, 8192);

        // Don't handle redirects -- return them to the caller.  Our code
        // often wants to re-POST after a redirect, which we must do ourselves.
        HttpClientParams.setRedirecting(params, false);

        // Use a session cache for SSL sockets
        SSLSessionCache sessionCache = context == null ? null : new SSLSessionCache(context);

        // Set the specified user agent and register standard protocols.
        HttpProtocolParams.setUserAgent(params, userAgent);
        SchemeRegistry schemeRegistry = new SchemeRegistry();
        schemeRegistry.register(new Scheme("http",
                PlainSocketFactory.getSocketFactory(), 80));
        schemeRegistry.register(new Scheme("https",
                SSLCertificateSocketFactory.getHttpSocketFactory(
                SOCKET_OPERATION_TIMEOUT, sessionCache), 443));

        ClientConnectionManager manager =
                new ThreadSafeClientConnManager(params, schemeRegistry);

        // We use a factory method to modify superclass initialization
        // parameters without the funny call-a-static-method dance.
        return new AndroidHttpClient(manager, params);
    }