Re: Possible XP Socket Bug?

From:
Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:07:53 -0700
Message-ID:
<49c6b684$0$25115$b9f67a60@news.newsdemon.com>
John B. Matthews wrote:

In article <49c27e77$0$25089$b9f67a60@news.newsdemon.com>,
 Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> wrote:

[...]

Thanks very much for trying it. For some reason, I'm still not
getting the exception with this test program although it works in
other programs. It's very strange.


FWIW, I tried it on Mac OS X 10.5.6, Java 1.5.0_16. Inside the LAN, I
saw "Connection refused" for ports without a listener; I saw "true" for
ports with a listener. I used netstat to see the results. I also got
warnings about unauthorized connections from the application firewall.

You might use netstat to see the internal state of whatever port is
giving anomalous results.

<code>
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;

public class KJTest {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        int port = args.length > 0 ? Integer.valueOf(args[0]) : 8080;
        Socket s = new Socket("localhost", port);
        System.out.println(s);
        System.out.println("connected to: " +
        s.getInetAddress().getHostName());
        BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(
        s.getOutputStream()));
        bw.write("hello world\n");
        System.out.println("data written");
        bw.close();
        System.out.println(s.isClosed());
    }

}
</code>


There is something really strange going on. I'm sure this is the same
problem that other fellow was having a few weeks back and I for one
thought he must have something hosed. But now I think their is some
sort of bug somewhere that is causing this.

C:\Documents and Settings\Knute Johnson>java KJTest 10101
Socket[addr=localhost/127.0.0.1,port=10101,localport=2913]
connected to: localhost
data written
true

C:\Documents and Settings\Knute Johnson>netstat -a | grep 10101

C:\Documents and Settings\Knute Johnson>

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