Question

im using guava and weberknecht to convert an inputStream to a string and connect to a websocket [see this post]. Weberknecht threw me out, so im trying a very simple Socket-Connection to get any answer from the server. The Problem is, i can’t read the inputStream. I don’t know why.

NOTE:
On Iphone the Websocket-Server works. [i know “websocket /= socket” … im just trying everything here to get ANY answer from the server]

My code:

        try {
            Socket sock = new Socket("62.212.88.234", 15000);
            OutputStream out = sock.getOutputStream();
            InputStream in = sock.getInputStream();

            Log.e("SKT", "Reading input [! PROBLEM HERE !]");
            String string = CharStreams.toString(new InputStreamReader(in,
                    "UTF-8"));

            Log.e("SKT", "Answer [! NEVER REACHED !]:" + string);
            sock.close();

        } catch (UnknownHostException e) {
            Log.e("SKT", "UnknownHostException: " + e.getMessage());
        } catch (IOException e) {
            Log.e("SKT", "IOException: " + e.getMessage());
        }

Thanks for the Help in advance.

Answer 1

The documentation for CharStreams.toString says:

Reads all characters from a Readable object into a String.

My guess is that the remote end does not close the socket, so there’s no end-of-stream to consume, thus the freeze.