Most likely, you have enabled Google App Engine. GAE doesn't allow you to open socket connections, which is why apache httpclient did not work. It does allow URLConnection, which is why your second approach worked.
--Sri On 21 June 2010 08:15, AgitoM <[email protected]> wrote: > As promised, here is the code that finally did the trick for me. > The key was using the java.net.URL Object. This object does work when > compiled on the server side. > > The code: > > The relavant imports: > > import java.io.BufferedReader; > import java.io.InputStreamReader; > import java.net.URL; > import java.net.URLConnection; > import java.util.Iterator; > > The Function: > > public Weather getWeatherInSingapore() { > System.out.println("Server Reached"); > > String request = "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss? > w=1062617&u=c"; > > Weather weatherReport = new Weather(); > > try { > URL url = new URL(request); > URLConnection yc = url.openConnection(); > > BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new > InputStreamReader(yc.getInputStream())); > > String xml = ""; > String line; > while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) { > xml = xml + line; > } > br.close(); > > weatherReport = this.convertYAHOOWeather(xml); > } catch (Exception e) { > e.printStackTrace(); > } > > return weatherReport; > } > > Again: > WeatherReport is a custom object I've written myself to contain the > necessary Information > The convertYAHOOWeather is a private function that parses the XML > reply form the YAHOO RSS (Using dom4j). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-web-toolkit%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" 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/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
