HttpURLConnection

[luciddream]

can someone show me how to use this class?

i try to make a new HttpURLConnection, which, atleast in my mind seems like a logical thing to do. on the other havd, javac doesn't seem to think it's as good of an idea as i do. it's telling me that it's an abstract class and can't be instantiated. alright, so, i'm supposed to use it's methods without creating a new object, fine. how do i do so? and why in the java.net documentation does it tell me that about the constructor and its parameter the url? any help will be appreciated.

 

[palbano]

From the JDK documentation for class URL:

Hope this helps
-pete

openConnection

public URLConnection openConnection()
throws IOException


Returns a URLConnection object that represents a connection to the remote object referred to by the URL.

A new connection is opened every time by calling the openConnection method of the protocol handler for this URL.

If for the URL's protocol (such as HTTP or JAR), there exists a public, specialized URLConnection subclass belonging to one of the following packages or one of their subpackages: java.lang, java.io, java.util, java.net, the connection returned will be of that subclass. For example, for HTTP an HttpURLConnection will be returned, and for JAR a JarURLConnection will be returned.

Returns:

a URLConnection to the URL.

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O exception occurs.

See Also:

URL(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, int, java.lang.String), URLConnection, URLStreamHandler.openConnection(java.net.URL)

 

[luciddream]

thank you. you've been most helpful