Re: URL connection -- browser headers

From:

Manivannan Palanichamy <manivannan.palanichamy@gmail.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 10:45:38 -0000

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On Aug 11, 7:10 am, Arne Vajh=F8j <a...@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

Manivannan Palanichamy wrote:

I am writing a java url connection code to read a web page. The
intelligent web server denies the request (returns 500 error). Yes, I
know the reason -- the web server identifies my java client as a robot/
spam program. Is there any way to pass the browser headers like ,
Accept-Language: en ?
I know I can pass these using java socket, but is there anyway to
put these values in properties for URL connection?

URL url = new URL("http://www.foobar.com/");
HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
con.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE
5.01; Windows NT 5.0)");

(this is emulating Windows 2000 and IE 5.0 - you may want something
more recent)

Arne

Cool and quick idea. Haven't tried it. but, thanks in advance.

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