Question

Don’t know how to explain it better but i’m trying to get a response from an URL containing a function (right?).

I’m working on this for a lot of hours and progressing a little every time but can’t get this finally working.
This is the request and response headers from chrome dev tools:

Headers

My code is:

String params = "{\"prefixText\":\"" + city 
                    + "\",\"count\":10,\"contextKey\":\"he\"}";
conn = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(
        "http://bus.gov.il/WebForms/wfrmMain.aspx/GetCompletionList")
        .openConnection();
conn.setDoOutput(true);
conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
conn.setChunkedStreamingMode(0);
// conn.setFixedLengthStreamingMode(params.length());
conn.addRequestProperty("Accept", "*/*");
conn.addRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=UTF-8");
conn.addRequestProperty("Content-Length", String.valueOf(params.length()));
conn.addRequestProperty("Host", "bus.gov.il");
conn.addRequestProperty("Origin", "http://bus.gov.il");
conn.addRequestProperty("X-Requested-With", "XMLHttpRequest");
conn.addRequestProperty("Referer",
        "http://bus.gov.il/WebForms/wfrmMain.aspx?width=1024&company=1&language=he&state=");
OutputStream os = new BufferedOutputStream(conn.getOutputStream());
os.write(params.getBytes());
String answer = readStream(conn.getInputStream());

I get the exception (I see in the stack trace) when calling “getinputstream” on this line:

String answer = readStream(conn.getInputStream());

before entering the readStream function!

I don’t know how to solve it…

Tried searching about xmlhttprequest but understood that it’s only in JS.

Also: I know I have a lot of unnecessary request properties but I can’t figure out which are unnecessary until the code will work.
Thanks in advance 🙂

Answer 1

Sadly, it used to be (and probably still is) that the HttpURLConnection throws a FileNotFoundException when you get a 404 error. When you are doing the getInputStream() that’s when it’s first connecting, so any error from the server will show up there.

Get Wireshark or something if you want to see what’s really going on in HTTP land as you make the request.