I know there are several question regarding this topic But I did't find an answer in any of them.
I'm trying to open a connection to my local server but I keep getting connection refused.
I have the server running and I tested the connection with the Browser and with a Google App called Postman and it works.
It's failing when opening the connection as if there where nothing to connect to. or maybe something is blocking the connection? I tested with firewall and antivirus down, no luck.
testing in Postman the URL returns a User as it should...
If I replace the url with "http://www.google.com" It Works fine.
here is my code:
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
/**
*
* @author Gabriel
*/
public class HttpConnection {
public HttpConnection() {
}
public void makeRequest() throws MalformedURLException, IOException {
String url = "http://localhost:8000/users/1";
URL obj = new URL(url);
HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) obj.openConnection();
// optional default is GET
con.setRequestMethod("GET");
//add request header
con.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2062.120 Safari/537.36");
con.setRequestProperty("Accept", "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8");
con.setRequestProperty("Accept-Encoding", "gzip,deflate,sdch");
con.setRequestProperty("Accept-Language", "en-US,en;q=0.8,es;q=0.6");
con.setRequestProperty("Connection", "keep-alive");
con.setRequestProperty("Host", "localhost:8000");
int responseCode = con.getResponseCode();
System.out.println("\nSending 'GET' request to URL : " + url);
System.out.println("Response Code : " + responseCode);
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream()));
String inputLine;
StringBuffer response = new StringBuffer();
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
response.append(inputLine);
}
in.close();
//print result
System.out.println(response.toString());
}
}
I have similar code that is working, but my request header is a lot simpler. Basically just:
con.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0");
If simplifying the header does not help, I would capture the traffic when using your browser with something like fiddler and then making the request look exactly like that.