URL connections

[Lucero, Dennis M]

I am having a strange problem. When I try and connect to a URL within
the struts framework (within an action class) I get errors.
 
Below is the code, this code works fine in a standalone java class
(main)  but in an action class I get an error when I try and 
Cast the connection,  any help is appreciated.
 
I do not get any exceptions thrown in the try blocks, and I get the
output con is NOT null
 
Thanks
 
 
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        String myUrl =
"https://onlinein.bankofamerica.com/cgi-bin/sso.login.controller";;
 
        URL url = null;
 
        try{
        url = new URL(myUrl);
        }catch(Exception e){System.out.println(e.getMessage());}
 
        System.out.println("report url is:  " + url.toString());
        URLConnection con = null;
 
        try{
            con = url.openConnection();
        }catch(Exception e){System.out.println(e.getMessage());}
 
        if(con==null)
            System.out.println("con is null");
        else
            System.out.println("con is NOT null");
   
 
        HttpsURLConnection conn = (HttpsURLConnection)con;

 
 
 
 
 
 
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