Question

I want to know what has been done when URL.openconnection().
i have done some test like this:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    //    testConnection("http://www.google.com");
    testConnection("http://219.09.34.23.1");
}

private static void testConnection(final String _url) {
    new Thread(new Runnable() {
        String strurl = _url;
        long starttime = 0;
        long endtime = 0;

        public void run() {
            try {
                System.out.println("open:" + strurl);

                starttime = System.currentTimeMillis();
                System.out.println("starttime:" + starttime);

                URL url = new URL(strurl);
                HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url
                        .openConnection();

                endtime = System.currentTimeMillis();
                System.out.println("openConnection endtime:" + endtime);
                System.out
                        .println("spend:" + (endtime - starttime) + " ms");

                conn.connect();
                endtime = System.currentTimeMillis();
                System.out.println("connect endtime2:" + endtime);
                System.out
                        .println("spend:" + (endtime - starttime) + " ms");

                conn.getResponseCode();
                endtime = System.currentTimeMillis();
                System.out.println("endtime3:" + endtime);
                System.out
                        .println("spend:" + (endtime - starttime) + " ms");
            } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();

                endtime = System.currentTimeMillis();
                System.out.println("MalformedURLException endtime:"
                        + endtime);
                System.out
                        .println("spend:" + (endtime - starttime) + " ms");
            } catch (IOException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();

                endtime = System.currentTimeMillis();
                System.out.println(" IOException endtime:" + endtime);
                System.out
                        .println("spend:" + (endtime - starttime) + " ms");
            }

        }
    }).start();
}

when i run testConnection(“http://www.google.com”), all things are ok.
when i run testConnection(“http://219.09.34.23.1”), “219.09.34.23.1” is a random ip maybe not exist i wrote, it print this:

open:http://219.09.34.23.1
starttime:1338978920350
openconnection endtime:1338978920355
spend:5 ms

    java.net.UnknownHostException: 219.09.34.23.1  
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)  
    at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)  
    at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)  
    at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)  
    at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(Unknown Source)  
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source)  
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source)  
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(Unknown Source)  
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(Unknown Source)  
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(Unknown Source)  
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(Unknown Source)  
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(Unknown Source)  
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source)  
    at Main$1.run(Main.java:37)  
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

IOException endtime:1338978920393
spend:43 ms

it means it spent 5ms to run openconnection, and spent 43ms to find it is a unknownhost, my problem is, what has been done when URL.openconnection() as “219.09.34.23.1” is unknownhost?
Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

If you read the javadocs for URL.openConnection(), you’ll find:

Returns a URLConnection instance that represents a connection to the
remote object referred to by the URL.

A new instance of URLConnection is created every time when invoking
the URLStreamHandler.openConnection(URL) method of the protocol
handler for this URL.

It should be noted that a URLConnection instance does not establish
the actual network connection on creation. This will happen only when
calling URLConnection.connect().

Update

The IP you used in your “random ip” is not valid; it should consist of 4 octets, not 5. The 43ms is probably for: (1) doing a DNS lookup on the non-IP ip (2) printing the stack trace.