Question

J2ME HTTP POST not working with static IP address

Asked by: dgbweb


Anyone know why a website would return a 404 error when you specify the IP address rather than the domain name. Both a JSP and a ASP website give me the same response.

The code snippet is below.

// these params work fine
String url = "http://localhost:8080/WebModule2/jsp1.jsp";
String formData = "username=foobar&password=foobar&Submit=Submit";

// these params work fine also
String url = "http://mydomainname.com/LoginProc.jsp";
String formData = "username=foobar&password=foobar&Submit=Submit";

//these params generate a 404 Not Found response from the server
// where the IP used is that reported when you ping the domain name
String url = "http://123.123.123.123/LoginProc.jsp";
String formData = "username=foobar&password=foobar&Submit=Submit";

The code is as follows:

HttpConnection c = (HttpConnection)Connector.open(url, Connector.READ_WRITE, true);
c.setRequestMethod(HttpConnection.POST);
c.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
String clen = Integer.toString(formData.length());
c.setRequestProperty("Content-length", clen);                              
OutputStream os = c.openOutputStream();
os.write(formData.getBytes());
os.flush();
os.close();

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2006-03-30 at 21:36:22ID21796418
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Answers

 

by: OBCTPosted on 2006-03-31 at 06:15:53ID: 16342536

Have you tried specifying the port number for that IP?

 

by: dgbwebPosted on 2006-03-31 at 06:22:21ID: 16342595

yes, I tried appending ":80" to the ip address. Didn't help with either site.

any other ideas?

 

by: bgloddePosted on 2006-03-31 at 08:30:01ID: 16343928

This is an interesting issue. From a MIDP perspective, there is nothing that should prevent the use of an IP address rather than a hostname.
Does the website respond when you bring it up via IP address in a browser?

 

by: bgloddePosted on 2006-03-31 at 08:31:15ID: 16343941

Also, does this happen in the emulator, just on the device, or both?

 

by: dgbwebPosted on 2006-03-31 at 10:34:55ID: 16345032

I am just on the emulator at present (sun's wireless toolkit with JBuilder2006). I suppose it is worth a try to download it to the phone and see if it works there or not.

the target page is known to work fine ( a production app is calling it). The browser works fine too.

the same code using the GET method returns an application specific error but at least it indicates the server found the page.

I am getting an html formatted response from the server with the 404 error code and the message that the server cannot find the specified file "/LoginProc.jsp".

If it isn't much work, maybe one of you could cut/paste the code into one of your apps and see what happens in your emulators.

Darren

 

by: bgloddePosted on 2006-03-31 at 15:14:11ID: 16347303

"the same code using the GET method returns an application specific error but at least it indicates the server found the page"

That's a good clue -

Get the response code from the request and maybe that will lead to a better clue:

// after this line
os.close();

// get the response code
int code = c.getResponseCode();
System.out.println("RESPONSE CODE: " + Integer.toString(code));


Maybe it's throwing back 411 (invalid content-length) or something like that -- at least, we can hope it's a better clue...

 

by: dgbwebPosted on 2006-04-04 at 11:43:58ID: 16374269

Hi,

the problem turned out to be a combination of needing to append ":80" to a fixed IP address, and setting the content length request property.

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