how to create depending on type of URL

[developerinlondon]

I need to find a way to create an object based on the type of URL we get at runtime.

eg:

URL url = new URL ("[URL unfurl="true"]http://gizmo.com");[/URL]
URLConnection conn = (URLConnection) url.openConnection();

if (url.contains("https")) {
     conn = (HTTPSConnection) url.openConnection();
}

the above code obviously doesnt work, but hopefully this will explain what I want to achieve. Any easy way of doing this?

 

[sedj]

if (url.toString().startsWith("https")) {

}

maybe ?

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[developerinlondon]

thanks. that will solve the 'if' condition. but the definition at the bottom doesnt work as it doesnt let me redefine a URLConnection type object as HttpsURLConnection.

 

[developerinlondon]

[javac] /opt/tomcat557/MultiFetcher/src/WEB-INF/classes/ntools/Jurl.java:116: cannot find symbol
[javac] symbol : method setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory)
[javac] location: class java.net.URLConnection
[javac] conn.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sslSocketFactory);

above is the exact error message. basically further down inside the 'if' block I use some methods specific to HttpsURLConnection which it fails to compile.

 

[developerinlondon]

i got it working, code posted on:

http://tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1041523&page=1