Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Steven Simpson Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: JAVA Networking: Code with getInputStream() was compatible with Java 1.6, is but anymore with 1.7 Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:05:10 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <042eb983-7952-46e4-8002-2eb5c8ff9323@googlegroups.com> <39a63e36-df8f-461f-a014-ab598e76bf9f@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="7e194865abb1454ff7685570b1bd8709"; logging-data="31626"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18MUh9m7bOLY4GBXlyPhHQNM/ZQ8FX2Nws=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130308 Thunderbird/17.0.4 In-Reply-To: <39a63e36-df8f-461f-a014-ab598e76bf9f@googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:bTx1zPvLINqye7BiglWbyK69Pjw= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:23211 On 02/04/13 22:08, musart wrote: > It worked What worked? The information you gave suggested that the server was at fault for not obeying HTTP, yet fixing the server was not an option for you. Did you drop HttpURLConnection and HTTP altogether? Did getErrorStream provide the response despite its promise of returning null if the server sent "no useful data"? Did the problem suddenly de-materialize? -- ss at comp dot lancs dot ac dot uk