I am working on a REST Client experimenting with the tinkerpop database using using HttpURLConnection
.
I am trying to send over a 'GET - CONNECT'
. Now I understand (from some net research) that if I use doOutput(true)
the 'client' will a 'POST' even if I setRequestMethod
'GET'
as POST is the default (well ok?) however when I comment out the the doOutput(true)
I get this error:
java.net.ProtocolException: cannot write to a URLConnection if doOutput=false - call setDoOutput(true)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getOutputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:995)
at RestContent.handleGetConnect(RestContent.java:88)
at RestClient.main(RestClient.java:42)`
Here is the communication code snip I have tried various option with setUseDoOutPut()
.
//connection.setDoInput(true);
connection.setUseCaches (false);
connection.setDoOutput(true);
connection.setAllowUserInteraction(false);
// set GET method
try {
connection.setRequestMethod("GET");
} catch (ProtocolException e1) {
e1.printStackTrace();
connection.disconnect();
}
Exception at connection.setRequestMethod("GET")
in the other case. Any hints?