HTTPURLConnection - 400 Bad Request

I check this Post. But I don't still understand what the logical error could be. I am still getting this error. I tried to dump the emulator traffic. But I still don't get my head around what the problem could be.

From the traffic dump, this is what Android is sending as request to the server. You can see the response too:

 GET /Authenticate/ HTTP/1.1
 Authorization: Basic asdfasdfasdfas

 Accept-Charset: UTF-8
 Host: www.domain.com
 User-Agent: Dalvik/1.4.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.3; sdk Build/GRI34)
 Connection: Keep-Alive
 Accept-Encoding: gzip

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 Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 04:47:42 GMT
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 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

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 <html><head>
 <title>400 Bad Request</title>
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 <h1>Bad Request</h1>
 <p>Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.<br />
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 <address>Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS) Server at www.domain.com Port 80</address>
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I don't know what those extra characters mean. But I was trying to identify the problem from it.

This is the basic code:

String credentials = username + ":" + password;
byte[] toencode = null;
try {
    toencode = credentials.getBytes("UTF-8");
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e1) {
    e1.printStackTrace();
}
HttpURLConnection conn = null;
try {
    //Utilities.isNetworkAvailable(context);
    URL url = new URL(params[0]);   
    Log.d(params[0],"UR");  
    conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
    conn.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic " + Base64.encodeToString(toencode, Base64.DEFAULT));
    conn.setRequestProperty("Accept-Charset", "UTF-8");
    conn.setRequestProperty("Host", "www.domain.com");
    conn.setRequestMethod("GET");
    conn.setDoOutput(true);

    String data = conn.getInputStream().toString();
    return data;
}

Any ideas?

Update

I checked Webserver Logs to see if the requests are hitting the server and if there was any problem with the request. This is what I see from error logs:

 [Thu Sep 13 10:05:24 2012] [error] [client 91.222.195.132] client sent HTTP/1.1 request without  hostname (see RFC2616 section 14.23): /Authenticate/
 [Thu Sep 13 23:11:57 2012] [error] [client 91.222.195.132] client sent HTTP/1.1 request without hostname (see RFC2616 section 14.23): /Authenticate/
 [Thu Sep 13 23:12:03 2012] [error] [client 91.222.195.132] client sent HTTP/1.1 request without hostname (see RFC2616 section 14.23): /Authenticate/

However I am setting the header property for the request.

Any ideas?

Solution

I figured out this myself. Its an issue with the order of setting headers.

Edit: Order I used.

URL url = new URL(strUrl);  
conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
conn.setRequestMethod("GET");
conn.setRequestProperty("Host", "myhost.com");
conn.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic " + Base64.encodeToString(toencode, Base64.DEFAULT));
conn.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.3.1)");
conn.setRequestProperty("Accept-Charset", "UTF-8");

conn.setConnectTimeout (5000) ; 
conn.setDoOutput(true); 
conn.setDoInput(true);