Oh, ok.. I thought instead of POST he can use get there. but thanks for the advice :)
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Jeffrey Blattman < [email protected]> wrote: > no, there's a default read timeout. the only thing i noticed wrong was > that you were writing to URL itself to the stream. > > > On 9/27/09 11:42 AM, HTN wrote: > > Seems like I was on the right track as I had url.openconnection. Is > the ReadTimout portion what I was doing wrong? > > I'll try the code out when I get back home tomorrow. Thanks for the > help. > > > On Sep 27, 2:21 pm, Jeffrey Blattman <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > nah. first, he said that the endpoint wants GET params, and you are > opening with POST method below. you don't need to write data to the > stream. the data is passed to the endpoint as GET params. > > if you just want to pass the get params, it's enough to just call > openConnection(). depending on how the endpoint returns a response, you > can check the response code with getResponseCode(), or you can read a > data response (XML, JSON, etc) by calling getInputStream(). here's the > simplest case, > > URL url = new URL(urlString); > HttpURLConnection uc = (HttpURLConnection) > url.openConnection(); > uc.setReadTimeout(30 * 1000); // 30 seconds > > if (uc.getResponseCode() != 200) { > //TODO: handle error and return > } > > reader = new BufferedReader(new > InputStreamReader(uc.getInputStream(), "ISO-8859-1"), 8192); > while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) { > result.append(line); > result.append('\n'); > } > > // result data is in "result" > > On 9/27/09 11:07 AM, Alok Kulkarni wrote: > > > > > > > > This works > URL url = new URL(serverURL); > > > // open the conncetion > HttpURLConnection connection = > (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection(); > > > // Let the run-time system (RTS) know that we want input. > connection.setDoInput(true); > // Let the RTS know that we want to do output > connection.setDoOutput(true); > // No caching, we want the real thing > connection.setUseCaches(false); > // set the content type property > connection.setRequestProperty("Content-type",strContenttype); > > > // set request method > connection.setRequestMethod("POST"); > // create the post body to send > String content = credDevPair.toString(); > Log.i("Request ====....... ",content); > DataOutputStream printout = new DataOutputStream ( > connection.getOutputStream () ); > > > // send the data > printout.writeBytes(content); > printout.flush(); > printout.close(); > > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:25 PM, HTN > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]>> wrote: > > > It's through GET parameters. I can type in the following command in > a > browser's URL box and it works: > http://192.168.0.12/output_format=xml&DeviceNum=13&action=SetTarget&n... > > <http://192.168.0.12/output_format=xml&DeviceNum=13&action=SetTarget&n...> > <http://192.168.0.12/output_format=xml&DeviceNum=13&action=SetTarget&n...> > > I'm used to sending commands through TCP sockets so I'm sure what's > the best way to send a URL command. I'm guessing the "opening" a URL > part isn't adequate. > > > On Sep 26, 8:49 pm, Jeffrey Blattman <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]>> > wrote: > > you are opening a URL, then writing that URL to the stream you > open at > > the URL. that's probably not what you wanted. what's the URL, > and what > > is the "command" you are trying to pass? how does the endpoint > accept > > the command? by reading POST data? through GET parameters? > > > > On 9/25/09 7:31 PM, HTN wrote: > > > > > I'm developing a remote app that sends commands via http. > Normally I > > > type in a link in a browser and the command will work. With > Android, I > > > would like it to work with a press of a button. I tried the > following > > > code and it didn’t work: > > > > > URL url = new URL(urlString); > > > > > URLConnection connection = url.openConnection(); > > > connection.setDoOutput(true); > > > > > OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter > > > (connection.getOutputStream()); > > > out.write(urlString); > > > out.close(); > > > > > "urlstring" is the http command link. > > > > > Any ideas? Am I on the wrong track? I'm confused because > technically I > > > don't need to write anything to the link. I would think it > would work > > > if I just open the connection. > > > > > Thanks. > > > > -- > > > -- > > > > > > > > -- > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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