Problems opening http connection from blackberry simulator

Question

I'm having trouble when opening a simple HttpConnection from the simulator, I've have appended the deviceside=true suffix to my url, however it's still not working, I'm receiving an empty httpconnection with response code of 0. This is the code that's giving me problems:

public void readUrl(){
     HttpConnection conn=null;
        try {
            conn = (HttpConnection) Connector.open("http://www.google.com;deviceside=true");
            conn.setRequestMethod("GET");
             if(conn.getResponseCode()==HttpConnection.HTTP_OK){
                 System.out.println("Create connection sucessfully");
             }

        } catch (ConnectionNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }




        DataInputStream din=null;
        ByteVector responseBytes=null;
        try {
            din = conn.openDataInputStream();
             responseBytes = new ByteVector();
              int i = din.read();
              while (-1 != i) {
                responseBytes.addElement((byte) i);
                i = din.read();
              }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            //TODO: HANDLE EXCEPTIONS
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        responseBytes.toArray();

I have no idea what's going on. It supposed that by appending the deviceside=true it should connect directly. Anyway I tried too installing the MDS server and setting my url to deviceside=false, but the result was the same.

Now I tested the same code using a local url like http://localhost:8080/resources/mypage.html, and It worked as expected, so I was wondering if this could be a simulator configuration issue. How can I solve it?

Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

Yes you're right, with deviceside=true the internet connection was used, however it seemed like it was a problem whit the HttpConnection class, when I used this code instead:

public StreamConnection openConnection(){
    StreamConnection conn=null;
    try {
        conn = (StreamConnection) Connector.open(url+";deviceside=true");
        //conn.setRequestMethod(httpMethod);

    } catch (ConnectionNotFoundException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    return conn;


}

It worked correctly, so I was wondering something...when opening a connection in blackberry where I should put my code for checking the response code. After creating the connection? like the code above or after opening a dataStream like:

din = conn.openDataInputStream();

         responseBytes = new ByteVector();
          int i = din.read();
          while (-1 != i) {
            responseBytes.addElement((byte) i);
            i = din.read();
          }

Thanks.