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Reputation: 1542

HttpURLConnection and getting ASPX page

So here is the problem I'm having currently...I have a ASPX script that runs on a server (let's say http://www.myserver.com/script.aspx)...when I open up this page via my web browser I get a plain text page with some data formated like this (just one line):

Data1|Data2|Data3|...

Now I need to fetch this data in my Android app which I did like this:

URL url = new URL("http://www.myserver.com/script.aspx");
HttpURLConnection urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader((InputStream) urlConnection.getInputStream()));

String data = in.readLine();
System.out.println(data); // Just to print the result in LogCat for debug

urlConnection.disconnect();

The problem is that the resulting string only contains the letter '@'. No sign of my data. I have tried using other web page adresses (like google.com) to test if it's a problem in my code...but it works...I allways get the first line of the page (usually the first html tag, since it's a HTML web page).

I am guessing now that this is some kind of problem with the way I'm calling my ASPX script...how can I call it via Java so I get the same result as the browser (eg. the one line with my data)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1593

Answers (1)

Veles
Veles

Reputation: 1542

Figured it out...I needed to set the user agent to a browser. So doing

urlConnection.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2");

did the trick. The only thing I am wondering now is what user-agent would be ideal to say "I am a browser"...this seems kinda long?

Upvotes: 1

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