Shoaib Ali It's bloggin time

Learnt a few things about the HTTP through Java. Here is a snippet code that will explain a lot.


public class SimpleSOCKET {

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

String file = "/index.php";

Socket socket = new Socket("shoaib.no-ip.org", 80);
PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(socket.getOutputStream(), false);
out.print("GET " + file + " HTTP/1.1\r\n");
out.print("Host: shoaib.no-ip.org\r\n");
out.print("Accept: text/plain, text/html, text/*\r\n");

out.print("\r\n");
out.flush();

String s;
BufferedReader buff = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream()));

while ((s = buff.readLine())!=null) {
System.out.println(s + "\n");
}

socket.close();
out.close();
buff.close();

}
}

One thing to take care when working with HTTP/1.1 is that it requires you to send in a Host header.


out.print("Host: shoaib.no-ip.org\r\n");


Otherwise It will give you 403 Error (Forbidden). Whereas working with HTTP/1.0 this is completely optional.

This is no new news; but I finally did it! I have a successfully installed mac osx 10.5.2 Leopard (leo4all) on my AMD cpu desktop. Everything went pretty smooth as far as the installation was concerned need to do minor tweaks in the bios to enable ACPI. The only major problems I had was with my audio not working.

Telstraclear now has a shop! You can visit them here directly telstraclearshop.co.nz. It is managed by zeald.com which uses Orcon as their service provider. Shockingly enough Telstraclear has no problems with that. They rather not use their own service.

Apart from that, The shop looks very neat. Still It didnt give me any incentive to buy anything yet. They have some decent gear but It will take some time to grow.

- Good luck to them.