I want to restrict the opening of Browser on URL Click

Question

I have a simple url that i want to hit without opening the browser in mobile phones. I am clicking a button and that url needs to get hit, without the browser getting opened. I am not concerned with what is on that page i just want to load it. I basically need it for my arduino cum ethernet shield IOT project, wherein i am controlling my appliances with my android phone.I have looked at many places, tried a ton of things but nothing to seem to work for me somehow. 

Can anyone please help me here. 

Here is a snippet of what i am doing. The apk is generating without errors but the url is not getting hit somehow.

Thankyou

public void led1on(View view){
      try {
        URL u = new URL("http://172.17.27.173/?2");
        HttpURLConnection http = (HttpURLConnection) u.openConnection();
        http.connect();
    }catch (Exception e){
        e.getMessage();
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

Answer 1

You can call it as a web service and do nothing with the results. For example:

AsyncHttpClient client = new AsyncHttpClient();
client.get("http://172.17.27.173/yourpage", params, new AsyncHttpResponseHandler() {
    @Override
    public void onSuccess(String response) { // 200 OK
        // Do nothing
    }
    @Override
    public void onFailure(int statusCode, Throwable error, String content) { // Response not 200
    {
        // Some troubleshooting, etc.
    }
});

In order to see how to use the above code, you can take a look at here which has explained how to use the code for Android: http://loopj.com/android-async-http/

It is also possible to use some other library such as Apache Http client as well:https://hc.apache.org/

try {
        DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
        HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);

        HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
        HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
        myContent = httpEntity.getContent();

    } catch ...

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