Issues performing a query to Solr via HttpClient using Solr 3.5 and HttpClient 4.2
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I am trying to query my local Solr server using HttpClient and I cannot figure out why the parameters are not being added to the `GET` call.  

My code for doing this is:

    HttpRequestBase request = new HttpGet("http://localhost:8080/solr/select");

    HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams();
    params.setParameter("q", query);
    params.setParameter("start", String.valueOf(start));
    params.setParameter("rows", String.valueOf(rows));

    request.setParams(params);

    HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
    HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(request);

    HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
    InputStream is = entity.getContent();
    
    return stringToStreamConversion(is); //500 error, NullPointerException, response is empty

I have tried to return several things in hopes of seeing what I would get and trying to figure out where the problem was.  I have finally realized that I was only getting back the `http://localhost:8080/solr/select` when I returned

`return request.getURI().toURL().toString();`

I cannot figure out why the parameters are not getting added.  If I do

`return request.getQuery();`

I get nothing back...any ideas? Thanks for the help in advance!