[kanagha]

I am trying to run this simple codepiece

Socket mySock = new Socket("www.javalobby.org",80);
InputStream ins = mySock.getInputStream();
BufferedReader bufr = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(ins));
String aLine = bufr.readLine();

but the program while running, gets hanged at the readLine and never ends. What is the reason?

[micro_lecnuj]

hi,

you have to send a request for it to send the response, otherwise it would not give you a reply.

[ad64105]

Hi ya

as micro_lecnuj says, the server is waiting for you to send something to it. Because its HTTP, you need to send a GET message to get the page.

Two things you should do are:
1. set the timeout on the socket (setsoTimeout) so that the socket will timeout if the server doesn't send anything (so that the code doesn't hang if you have a comms prombem)
2. get hold of the the output stream from the socket and send a string like "GET /X" remember to add a blank line at the end of the response.

Hope that this helps

Andy