Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!uio.no!newsfeed1.swip.net!85.214.130.194.MISMATCH!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!.POSTED.host86-130-209-124.range86-130.btcentralplus.com!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: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 09:27:36 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <042eb983-7952-46e4-8002-2eb5c8ff9323@googlegroups.com> <2tak2a-35n.ln1@s.simpson148.btinternet.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="host86-130-209-124.range86-130.btcentralplus.com:86.130.209.124"; logging-data="8055"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130308 Thunderbird/17.0.4 In-Reply-To: <2tak2a-35n.ln1@s.simpson148.btinternet.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:23171 On 31/03/13 00:00, Steven Simpson wrote: > I would suggest calling getErrorStream() if you get an exception from > getInputStream(), but if the response does not appear to be valid > HTTP, I can't predict what getErrorStream() will actually give you. Of course I can; it's null if "the server sent no useful data". -- ss at comp dot lancs dot ac dot uk