Its a single webpage on a webserver just a few lines of html code.
Struggling to even get a connection that prevents me proceeding any further. Exception is raised when i make the connection. What could cause the exception. The webpage is loading and updating in the WebView.
//NB I have Android Users permission for internet access in the manifest
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
WebView webView;
WebViewClient wvClient=new WebViewClient();
TextView display;
RelativeLayout framelayout;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
framelayout=(RelativeLayout)findViewById(R.id.framelayout);
webView = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.webView);
display =(TextView)findViewById(R.id.display);
webView.loadUrl("xxx.xxx.xx.xx");
webView.setWebViewClient(wvClient);
display.setText("Status bar");
try{
URL url = new URL("xxx.xxx.xx.xx");
//Step 1: Create our connection object. NB the connection is not made yet until we call connect
URLConnection urlconn = (URLConnection)url.openConnection();//This creates our connection object to the resource referenced by the url
/*Step 2: We specify setup parameters
Available methods are viz: setAllowUserInteraction, setDoInput, setDoOutput
setIfModifiedSince, setUseCaches*/
urlconn.setAllowUserInteraction(false);//we dont allow user interaction
urlconn.setDoInput(true);//This indicates that the application reads data from the URL Connection
urlconn.setDoOutput(false);//We not writing data to the URL Connection
urlconn.setIfModifiedSince(0);//We always want fetching to occur
urlconn.setUseCaches(true);//We want caching where possible instead of getting a fresh copy each time
//Step 3: We set general request properties using method setRequestProperty
//Not entirely sure what to put inside this method
//urlconn.setRequestProperty(?????, ????);
//Step 4: Look at setConnectTimeout,setReadTimeout
urlconn.setConnectTimeout(15000);//if timeout occurs before a connection is established then java.net.SocketTimeoutException is raised
urlconn.setReadTimeout(15000);//if timeout expires before data is available for read then java.net.SocketTimeoutException is raised
//Step 5: we create the connection using urlconn.connect() which make the remote object available
urlconn.connect();//This is causing the exception even if we have an infinite timeout
//Step 6: We access the header fields and contents of the remote object
display.setText(urlconn.getHeaderField("h1"));
}
catch(Exception ex){
display.setText("Exception Raised");//So we have an Exception raised
}
}
}