Question

I am trying to read a pdf from a url without downloading and then i am trying to flatten it .

This is the code :

import java.io.FileOutputStream;

import com.lowagie.text.pdf.AcroFields;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfStamper;

public class FormFillAndMakeItFlattenPDF {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      try {
         PdfReader reader = new PdfReader("http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf");
         PdfStamper stamp2 = new PdfStamper(reader, new FileOutputStream("C:\\Flattened.pdf"));
         AcroFields form2 = stamp2.getAcroFields();
         stamp2.setFormFlattening(true);
         stamp2.close();
      }
      catch (Exception de) {
         de.printStackTrace();
      }
   }
}

However, this is throwing an error/exception . This is the stacktrace :

    java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:352)
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:214)
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:201)
    at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:377)
    at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:530)
    at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:480)
    at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:175)
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:406)
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:541)
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(HttpClient.java:245)
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:318)
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:335)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(HttpURLConnection.java:832)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java:773)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection.java:698)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1021)
    at java.net.URL.openStream(URL.java:1009)
    at com.lowagie.text.pdf.RandomAccessFileOrArray.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at com.lowagie.text.pdf.RandomAccessFileOrArray.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PRTokeniser.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at FormFillAndMakeItFlattenPDF.main(FormFillAndMakeItFlattenPDF.java:18)

Can anybody tell me , what i am doing wrong here ?

Answer 1

If the problem happens because of proxy, call this at application startup.

System.setProperty("http.proxyHost", Config.PROXY_HOST);
System.setProperty("http.proxyPort", Config.PROXY_PORT);

where you change Config.X to your system values.

Note: for https you need to add similar lines with https.proxyHost and https.proxyPort