Trouble getting InputStream from URLConnection
I am having a problem getting an InputStream object from a URLConnection object with the getInputStream() method. When my code didn't work I tested it on a few different sites and it works fine on all the sites except the site I want. When I call the getInputStream() method the program just hangs. The site I am trying to connect to is "http://www.digg.com". Is it possible for someone else to try get an InputStream from this site.
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andyrobo60
I don't want to write a test code from scratch on my own.
Post a small demo code that is generally compilable, runnable and could reproduce your problem. See: http://homepage1.nifty.com/algafield/sscce.html and http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/java/newsgroups.html
Give a small help to us if you want help from us.
hiwaa at 2007-7-11 23:39:44 >
I used some software that I usually use from behind a proxy server (prompts for name/password etc and does other stuff). It's too long to post, but I found the same thing as the OP - namely that http://www.digg.com/ hangs.
I solved it by adding uc.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Firefox");
uc is the URLConnection I am using. It seems the site doesn't like whatever User-Agent is sent by default. (Possibly defense against robots or whatever.)
Thanks pbrockway2 that worked.
Sorry I didn't post the code but when my code didn't work I changed it to the simplest code I could think of.
try{
URL url = new URL(http://www.digg.com);
URLConnection con = url.openConnection();
InputStream in = con.getInputStream();
}catch(MalformedURLException ex){}
After this didn't work then I posted on the forums and couldn't see the point in posting something so simple.
