Jon Stevens wrote:
>
> on 7/18/2000 7:51 PM, "Samuel SHUM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > java.lang.NullPointerException
> > at java.net.URLConnection.stripOffParameters(URLConnection.java:1016)
>
> I found that while doing Noodle (another project I will be announcing
> shortly if you all care about it), that URLConnection was EXTREMELY buggy.
> If the remote server does not return a Content-Type: HTTP header, I would
> get exceptions like this. I imagine that it might also happen with other
> HTTP headers it is expecting.
>
> You can work around this bug in URLConnection by try/catching the NPE and
> calling URLConnection.getInputStream() to grab the content.
Seems like someone should just write a NonBuggyURLConnection :) Most of
the JDK source sucks. Yet another reason this should be OSS. It is
inevitable now. :)
> Whomever wrote java.net.* should be fired. The design and implementation of
> most of the classes in that package just plain suck. There are numerous open
> bugs in the JDC about it.
<snip>
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