sending headers using URL class 1

[developerinlondon]

Does anyone know of a way I can add a header to send in the URL class?

 

[timw]

URL's don't have headers. Are you talking about HTTP requests?

 

[developerinlondon]

yes, I am trying to send an HTTP request and pass a header to it. So far URL class was enough to fetch remote documents.

 

[timw]

Have you looked at the HttpURLConnection class?

 

[developerinlondon]

thanks for that.
it looks better but i cant seem to find any setHeader or equivalent type of functions on it? do you have some examples of passing headers with HTTPURLConnection?

 

[developerinlondon]

ok got it!
its

           conn.setRequestProperty("test-header","test-value");

thanks again tim. i shall purple-star thee for thoust valuable comment!

 

[timw]

Well, I'm not sure if I'm misleading us both. The setRequestProperty is actually defined in the URLConnection class. HttpURLConnection subclasses URLConnection.

 

[developerinlondon]

oh?

yes actually you are right! i must have overlooked that function all along! i reverted it back to the URLConnection class and its working still! Probably better off using the URLConnection version if I dont need the extra functionality.