urlconnection

I was trying to use the Apache Ant Get task to get a list of WSDLs generated by another team in our company. They have them hosted on a weblogic 9.x server on http://....com:7925/services/ . I am able to get to the page through a browser, but the get task gives me a FileNotFoundException when trying to copy the page to a local file to parse. I was still able to get (using the ant task) a URL without the non-standard port 80 for HTTP. I looked through the Ant source code, and narrowed the error down to the URLConnection. It seems as though the URLConnection doesn't recognize the data is HTTP

I wrote a program that downloads some files from some servers. Currently program works properly. But I want to add resume support to it. I'm doing it like this But the result file is corrupted: .... File fcheck=new File(SaveDir+"/"+filename); if(resumebox.isSelected() && fcheck.exists()){ connection.setRequestProperty("Range", "Bytes="+(fcheck.length())+"-"); } connection.setDoInput(true); connection.setDoOutput(true); BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream (connection.getInputStream()); pbar.setIndeterminate(false); pbar.setStringPainted(true); java.io.FileOutputStream fos ; if

There's setDoOutput() in URLConnection . According to documentation I should Set the DoOutput flag to true if you intend to use the URL connection for output, false if not. Now I'm facing exactly this problem - the Java runtime converts the request to POST once setDoOutput(true) is called and the server only responds to GET requests. I want to understand what happens if I remove that setDoOutput(true) from the code. What exactly will this affect? Suppose I set it to false - what can I do now and what can't I do now? Will I be able to perform GET requests? What is "output" in context of this

I would like to generate POST request to a server which requires authentication. I tried to use the following method: private synchronized String CreateNewProductPOST (String urlString, String encodedString, String title, String content, Double price, String tags) { String data = "product[title]=" + URLEncoder.encode(title) + "&product[content]=" + URLEncoder.encode(content) + "&product[price]=" + URLEncoder.encode(price.toString()) + "&tags=" + tags; try { URL url = new URL(urlString); URLConnection conn; conn = url.openConnection(); conn.setRequestProperty ("Authorization", "Basic " +

I am using HTTPURLConnection to connect to a web service. I know how to use HTTPURLConnection but I want to understand how it works. Basically, I want to know the following: On which point does HTTPURLConnection try to establish a connection to the given URL? On which point can I know that I was able to successfully establish a connection? Are establishing a connection and sending the actual request done in one step/method call? What method is it? Can you explain the function of getOutputStream and getInputStream in layman's term? I notice that when the server I'm trying to connect to is down,