URLConnection

[Aaron M. Renn]

Dandekar, Hrishikesh (Hrishikesh_Dandekar at NAI.com) wrote:
> URl url= new URL(urlname);
> URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
> *********   int length= connection.getContentLength();   **********
> .....
> 
> However, the methods connection. { getContentLength() , getContentEncoding()
> , getcontentType() } fail by returning  -1 or null... 
> The same code works fine with sun's jvm...
> 
> what could be the possible problem?

Try calling connection.connect() first. 

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