I am attempting to access a file wi

[bucafett2000]

I am attempting to access a file with the java.net.URL data type in WAS on OS390 with athentication on.

Authenticator.setDefault(new BTSAuthenticator());    
URL url = new URL("[URL unfurl="true"]http://mylocation/file.txt");[/URL]
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
connection.setFollowRedirects(false);
connection.connect();
InputStream input = connection.getInputStream();
...
protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
return new PasswordAuthentication("username", "password".toCharArray());
}

I get java.net.ProtocolException: Server redirected too many times (5) when it gets to the getInputStream() call.

Any help on solving this would greatly be appreciated. Thanks!
Adam

 

[fearo]

Hi,

I am not a developer but I did manage to find a direct reference to this problem.

Replace

connection.setFollowRedirects(false);

with

((HttpURLConnection) conn).setInstanceFollowRedirects(false);

this subclasses it and overrides the limitation.

Does this help?

Regards,

Fearo

 

[bucafett2000]

Unfortunately I am using this on WAS 3.5 and the JVM version IBM uses is 1.2.2. In that version setInstanceFollowRedirects(false) is not available.

Thanks for the suggestion though.