Re: HttpURLConnection locks up on connect()
Knute Johnson wrote:
phillip.s.powell@gmail.com wrote:
public static boolean isReachableURL(URL url)
throws MalformedURLException, IOException, Exception {
System.out.println("Testing to see if URL connects");
HttpURLConnection conn =
(HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
System.out.println("Created HttpURLConnection object");
conn.connect();
System.out.println("connecting..");
boolean isConnected = (conn.getContentLength() > 0);
System.out.println("disconnecting..");
conn.disconnect();
System.out.println("disconnected");
return isConnected;
}
I am trying to simply determine if a URL provided is a "reachable URL",
if so, return true, else, return false.
On most URLs I have no problem distinguishing reachable from
unreachable, but if you try something like this:
http://blah.com
It will lock up tight as a drum and I have to break into Windows Task
Manager to stop the process as it runs as an infinite loop at this
point.
So how can I reliably determine if a URL is reachable or unreachable?
Thanx
Phil
I don't know what the default timeout is on an HTTPURLConnection but it
will eventually time out. blah.com however does have a web server but
it is the slowest I have ever seen. It could be that you just need a
little patience.
I have no way of changing the default timeout in HttpURLConnection as
it has no property nor method that exists within the J2SE 1.4.2 API
that tells me how to set it. I was sitting there for a minute w/o any
results.
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