CC3220S-LAUNCHXL: Creating HTTP client in init() and sendRequest in send()

Hi,

I am trying to create/connect httpClientHandle by doing the below in the init() of my code

                    Display_printf(display, 0, 0, "httpTask: CREATING HTTP");
                    // HTTP Construct
                    int16_t ret = 0;
                    int16_t statusCode;
                    httpClientHandle = HTTPClient_create(&statusCode,0);
                    if (statusCode < 0)
                    {
                        Display_printf(display, 0, 0, "httpTask: creation of http client handle failed", statusCode);
                    }
                    ret = HTTPClient_connect(httpClientHandle,HOST_NAME,0,0);
                    if (ret < 0) {
                        Display_printf(display, 0, 0, "httpTask: connect failed", ret);
                    }

I also have a function called httpTask() which references to the above httpClientHandle by doing

extern HTTPClient_Handle httpClientHandle;

However, when I try to do a Send request inside of httpTask(), I get an error. On the other hand, when I create/connect httpClientHandle inside of httpTask() instead of init() and then do a Send request, I don't have a problem. Why is this so?

extern HTTPClient_Handle httpClientHandle;