This method checks whether an entity exists.

public boolean hasEntity()

None.

The method returns true if an entity exists in the HTTP response.

• The method returns false if an HTTP response is acquired with an HTTP HEAD request.
• The method returns true if HttpURLConnection returns a number greater than 0 or -1 as the value of the Content-Length HTTP header. The method returns false if HttpURLConnection returns any other value.
• Generally, HttpURLConnection returns an integer greater than 0 if the encoding is not a chunked transfer encoding and an entity exists in the HTTP response, and -1 if the encoding is a chunked transfer encoding. For details on chunked transfer encoding, see RFC 2616.
• In the following cases, the operations are not guaranteed because the HTTP response is invalid:
  
  • If the encoding is a chunked transfer encoding and the HTTP response contains the Content-Length HTTP header
  • If the encoding is not a chunked transfer encoding and the value of the Content-Length HTTP header is not an appropriate value based on the HTTP response entity.