Object not found 404

[yogesh somavanshi]

Hello,
I m using sockets to connect to a particular host for eg say www.vanenbits.com .Then forming a get request for the socket I m wrirting into the socket .
The returned header part (contains the information about the resposemessage and response code with various other details).

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[B]
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
public class PostSocket
{
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
    {
 try
 {
     Socket socket = new Socket("www.vanenbits.com", 80);
      PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(
      new OutputStreamWriter(
       socket.getOutputStream())));
    out.println("GET / HTTP/1.0");
                  out.println();
     out.flush();
     if (out.checkError())
    System.out.println("SSLSocketClient:  java.io.PrintWriter error");
   BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
          socket.getInputStream()));
     String inputLine;
     while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
   System.out.println(inputLine);
      in.close();
     out.close();
     socket.close();
 } catch (Exception e)
 {
     e.printStackTrace();
 }
  }//end of main
}[/B] 

But suppose u replace out.println("GET / HTTP/1.0"); in the above code with
out.println("GET /introduction.html HTTP/1.0");that is asking for the file intoroduction.html then the responsemessage returned in header part is HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found.
So why it is not able to find the given file,even though the file exists on the server.
Regards
Yogesh
[ April 25, 2002: Message edited by: yogesh somavanshi ]

[Peter den Haan]

Must admit that I am somewhat mystified as well; perhaps an HTTP or Apache guru could help out. The server insists on an absolute URI in its GET request (try GET http://www.vanenburg.com/introduction.html instead of just /introduction.html). As far as I know this is normally only required with proxies.
- Peter