Question

I am executing the following code and always get an EOFException in urlConnection.getInputStream(). I know that the webserver is not returning proper headers, but if I use the same url in a web browser I get the expected content back.

URL url1;
try
{
    url1 = new URL("http://63.255.173.242/get_public_tbl.cgi?A=1");
    HttpURLConnection urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url1.openConnection();
    try 
    {
        InputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(urlConnection.getInputStream());
        readStream(in);
    }
    catch(Exception e)
    {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    finally
    {
        urlConnection.disconnect();
    }
}
catch (MalformedURLException e)
{
    e.printStackTrace();
}
catch (IOException e)
{
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Any ideas?

Edit 1:

I thought I was on to a possible solution. I found that using Android 2.3 I can read the response by calling getHeaderFields() (even though there is no header), but if I use Android 4.1 getHeaderFields() returns null. Any ideas?

url1 = new URL("http://63.255.173.242/get_public_tbl.cgi?A=1");
URLConnection urlConnection = url1.openConnection();
Map<String, List<String>> fields = urlConnection.getHeaderFields();

Answer 1

As your server is not talking proper HTTP you cannot use URL.openConnection, but you can still access it using a plain socket connection to 63.255.173.242 port 80 and sending the strings:

GET /get_public_tbl.cgi?A=1 HTTP/1.0\r\n
\r\n

and then reading the resulting stream.