Re: infinite loop with http requests
Oliver Wong wrote:
"yawnmoth" <terra1024@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1164044232.153610.195660@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
I'm trying to write something that'll let me output the contents of a
given webpage while skipping over the headers. Since I'm trying to
learn raw HTTP, I'm using Sockets and not URL.
[snip most of the code]
Socket sock = new Socket("www.google.com", 80);
I recommend against using google as your test server. Google does some
funky stuff when it detects that Java is connecting to it, which may give
you unexpected results.
- Oliver
Good suggestion except for two things, He isn't using Java's URL API,
which is what's responsible for setting the User-Agent string. Second,
you can override the User-Agent string, and google couldn't possible
know the difference.
In any case, his problem is that the OP is comparingwith line == "",
when he should use line.equals(""), or better yet line.size() == 0
HTH,
Daniel.
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