[java] What causes HttpHostConnectException?

I have a Auto Complete/type ahead feature on Search for my website. I see that some time their is an exception associated with it. We are using a proxy server.

org.apache.http.conn.HttpHostConnectException: Connection to http://proxy.xyz.com:60 refused    

at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnectionOperator.openConnection(DefaultClientConnectionOperator.java:159)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.AbstractPoolEntry.open(AbstractPoolEntry.java:149)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.AbstractPooledConnAdapter.open(AbstractPooledConnAdapter.java:108)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.execute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:415)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:641)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:576)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:554)
at com.xxx.dd.sone.integration.SearchDAO.getJSONData(SearchDAO.java:60)
at com.xxx.dd.sone.integration.SearchDAO.searchAutoCompleteResults(SearchDAO.java:560)
at com.xxx.dd.sone.presentation.util.SearchAutoCompleteUtil.doGet(SearchAutoCompleteUtil.java:26)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:731)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:845)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletServiceAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:242)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.execute(ServletStubImpl.java:352)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.execute(ServletStubImpl.java:236)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.run(WebAppServletContext.java:3254)
at weblogic.servlet.provider.WlsSubjectHandle.run(WlsSubjectHandle.java:57)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.doSecuredExecute(WebAppServletContext.java:2163)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.execute(WebAppServletContext.java:2074)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.run(ServletRequestImpl.java:1512)
at weblogic.servlet.provider.ContainerSupportProviderImpl$WlsRequestExecutor.run(ContainerSupportProviderImpl.java:255)
at weblogic.work.ExecuteRequestAdapter.execute(ExecuteRequestAdapter.java:22)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:147)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:119)

Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused

Here is the how i have coded

public HashMap<String, Object> getJSONData(String url)throws Exception {
    DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
    HttpParams params = httpClient.getParams();
    try {
        HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(params, 10000);
        HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(params, 10000);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        throw e;
    }
    HttpHost proxy = new HttpHost(proxy.xyz.com, 60);
    ConnRouteParams.setDefaultProxy(params, proxy);
    URI uri;
    InputStream data = null;
        uri = new URI(url);
        HttpGet method = new HttpGet(uri);
        HttpResponse response=null;
        try {
        response = httpClient.execute(method);
        }catch(Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            throw e;
        }
        data = response.getEntity().getContent();
    Reader r = new InputStreamReader(data);
    HashMap<String, Object> jsonObj = (HashMap<String, Object>) GenericJSONUtil.fromJson(r);
    return jsonObj;
}

Can any one tell me why i am getting this exception some time only? is this possible that this exception is caused when a search request is made from Android applications as our website don't support a request is being made from android applications

In my case the issue was a missing 's' in the HTTP URL. Error was: "HttpHostConnectException: Connect to someendpoint.com:80 [someendpoint.com/127.0.0.1] failed: Connection refused" End point and IP obviously changed to protect the network.

You must set proxy server for gradle at some time, you can try to change the proxy server ip address in gradle.properties which is under .gradle document