I am trying to put the username and password required by a server into the java.net.URL class so I can get some data off a password protected server. The URL class always returns a FileNotFound exception. There doesn't seem to be any way to set the authentication information other than in the full URL string as per the standard way;
http://user:password@hostname/path the URL works great in either IE or Mozilla. However this code; String location = "http://user:password@hostname/path";; URL url = new URL(location); URLConnection urlC = url.openConnection(); urlC.connect(); always produces the exception; java.io.FileNotFoundException: http://user:password@hostname/path If I try this; url.getAuthority(); it returns; user:password@hostname I've the various other separators in RFC2396 but all others return "MalformedURLException". The individual components constructor of the URL class doesn't include the authority info as a separate item. The JavaDoc has a 'set' method but it's a protected member. Does anyone have any idea how I can progress further? Do I have to subclass it? Is there another technique? thanks scot. ___________________________________________ Scot Mcphee - Snr Developer - (mobile) +61-412-957414 ___________________________________________ Tigerex - http://www.tigerex.net - (bus) +61-2-82593613 ___________________________________________ To change your JDJList options, please visit: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm
