Hi all. I'm trying to get a ktor client talking to a REST service that is served via a wifi infrastr...

# ktor

[xxfast]

Hi all. I'm trying to get a ktor client talking to a REST service that is served via a wifi infrastructure access point on Android. Is there a way to configure an HttpClient(Android) with a custom URLConnection?

val urlConnection: URLConnection = network.openConnection(URL(connection.serverUri))
urlConnection.connect()

val client = HttpClient(Android){
 // configure the client to use the url connection from the network
}

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

You can configure the HttpURLConnection created by Ktor using the requestConfig configuration method.

[xxfast]

Thanks @Aleksei Tirman [JB]. Bit confused about this signature

public class AndroidEngineConfig : HttpClientEngineConfig() {
    /**
     * Allows you to configure [HTTPS](<https://ktor.io/docs/client-ssl.html>) settings for this engine.
     */
    public var sslManager: (HttpsURLConnection) -> Unit = {}

    /**
     * Allows you to set engine-specific request configuration.
     */
    public var requestConfig: HttpURLConnection.() -> Unit = {}
}

Are we just supposed to do this?

HttpClient(Android) {
  engine {
    requestConfig(urlConnection)
    sslManager(urlConnection)
  }
}