Re: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset ?

From:
Daniel Pitts <googlegroupie@coloraura.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
2 May 2007 07:54:04 -0700
Message-ID:
<1178117644.543466.40150@y5g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>
On May 2, 7:27 am, Roland <roland...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello. Look on my code, which can get WWW pages: (for examplehttp://whatismyip.com/)

InetSocketAddress socketAddress = new InetSocketAddress(new
URL("http://whatismyip.com/").getHost(), 80);
        Socket socket = new Socket();
        socket.connect(socketAddress);

        BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(new
OutputStreamWriter(socket.getOutputStream()));
        String request = "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nUser-Agent: Opera/9.20
(Windows NT 5.0; U; pl)\r\nHost: whatismyip.com\r\n\r\n";
        writer.write(request);
        writer.flush();

        StringBuffer content = new StringBuffer();
        String line;
        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new
InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream()));
        while ((line = reader.readLine ()) != null)
          content.append(line).append ("\n");
        String response = content.toString();
        System.out.println(response);

Unfortunately, there is a error:
        java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
in this line:
        while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null)

When I download others pages, everything is OK, but this code always
cannot gethttp://whatismyip.com/page. Why?
Where is an error?

Thanks for your answer.


Why not use:
new URL("http://whatismyip.com/").getConnection() or getContent even?
Its easier than dealing with the HTTP protocol yourself.

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