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using the java.net classes

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Rooks)
Thu Sep 14 03:36:19 1995

From: Steve Rooks <srooks@cmprime.att.com>
Original-From: Steve Rooks <cmprime!srooks>
To: java-interest-digest@java.sun.com
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 0:02:49 EDT


I'm trying to do some basic stuff in java to log into a http server
and then download a page and process the information. I'm interested
in automatically downloading share price info from a password protected
site.

I start off in the following way, 

                URL testURL = new URL(sharePriceURL);
                HttpClient hc = new HttpClient(testURL,"proxy",80);

                System.out.println("Connection Done ");

                dataStream = hc.getInputStream();

                MessageHeader hd = new MessageHeader(dataStream);
                hd.parseHeader(dataStream);
                hd.print(System.out);

but don't appear to be getting anywhere. I cannot seem to find any 
documentation on how to use the java.net.* classes or any examples. The
API pages aren't much use if you don't know what your doing!

Can anyone give me a bootstrap to start me on my way? 

steve

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