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HTTP Server issues

Hi guys i have a very basic http server coded in about 30 minutes for an assignment and have come across a very weird problem. We were specified to use only BufferedOutputStream instead of a StreamWriter as there is apparently an issue with using PrintWriters as they perform differently on different platforms. I am confused as i have the follwoing println method...

private void println(BufferedOutputStream bos, String s) throws IOException {
    String toPrint = s + "\r\n";
    byte[] array = toPrint.getBytes();
    for (int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
        bos.write(array[i]);
    }
    return;
}

I am confused as when using 

println(outStream,"HTTP/1.1 200 OK");
println(outStream,"");
println(outStream,"Hello World");

the webpage says i have not sent any data but using...

writer.println("HTTP/1.1 200 OK");
writer.println("");
writer.println("Hello World");

everything appears perfectly.. ive tried a few things such as flushing the outStstream but i dont understand why it wont work

Thanks for the help

Solution

  • Have you flushed and closed your BufferedOutputStream after writing all the data?