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Question

I was trying to use the Apache Ant Get task to get a list of WSDLs generated by another team in our company. They have them hosted on a weblogic 9.x server on http://....com:7925/services/. I am able to get to the page through a browser, but the get task gives me a FileNotFoundException when trying to copy the page to a local file to parse. I was still able to get (using the ant task) a URL without the non-standard port 80 for HTTP.

I looked through the Ant source code, and narrowed the error down to the URLConnection. It seems as though the URLConnection doesn't recognize the data is HTTP traffic, since it isn't on the standard port, even though the protocol is specified as HTTP. I sniffed the traffic using WireShark and the page loads correctly across the wire, but still gets the FileNotFoundException.

Here's an example where you will see the error (with the URL changed to protect the innocent). The error is thrown on connection.getInputStream();

import java.io.File;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;

    public class TestGet {
    private static URL source; 
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        doGet();
    }
    public static void doGet() {
            try {
            source = new URL("http", "test.com", 7925,
                    "/services/index.html");
            URLConnection connection = source.openConnection();
            connection.connect();
            InputStream is = connection.getInputStream();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.err.println(e.toString());
        }
    }

}

Answer 1

I know this is an old thread but I found a solution not listed anywhere here.

I was trying to pull data in json format from a J2EE servlet on port 8080 but was receiving the file not found error. I was able to pull this same json data from a php server running on port 80.

It turns out that in the servlet, I needed to change doGet to doPost.

Hope this helps somebody.

Answer 2

You could use OkHttp:

OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();

String run(String url) throws IOException {
  Request request = new Request.Builder()
      .url(url)
      .build();

  Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();
  return response.body().string();
}