Calling external service from qa and sbx

gistfile1.java

public TimedHttpResponse send(final HttpRequestBase request, Header ... additionalHeaders) throws TimedHttpCommunicationException {
  String uriString = request.getURI().toString();
  //set additional headers if any
  request.setHeader("Accept", "application/json");
  
  //let's run the actual http execution in another thread then wait for it
  Future<HttpResponse> task = timeoutService.submit(new Callable<HttpResponse>() {
    @Override
    public HttpResponse call() throws Exception {
      HttpResponse response = execute(request);
      if (aborted.get()) {
        //if we got aborted, we need to consume the response entity
        //this will trigger a cleanup of the stream in addition to closing it
        EntityUtils.consumeQuietly(response.getEntity());
      }
      return response;
    }
  });
  HttpResponse httpResponse = task.get(timeoutMillis, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
}