Socket constructor error

[justin mcsporran]

Hi,
When I compile the appended class, I get the following error:

socketApp1.java:11: cannot resolve symbol
symbol  : constructor Socket (java.lang.String,java.lang.String)
location: class java.net.Socket
                Socket socket = new Socket("127.0.0.1", "8080");
                                ^
1 error

The code is:

import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.net.ServerSocket;
import java.net.InetAddress;
public class socketApp1 {
public static void main (String args[]) {

Socket socket = new Socket("127.0.0.1", "8080");
OutputStream os = socket.getOutputStream();
boolean autoflush = true;
PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter( socket.getOutputStream(), autoflush );
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader( 
    new InputStreamReader( socket.getInputStream() ));

// send an HTTP request to the web server
out.println("GET /index.jsp HTTP/1.1");
out.println("Host: localhost:8080");
out.println("Connection: Close");
out.println();

// read the response
boolean loop    = true;
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(8096);

while (loop) {
    if ( in.ready() ) {
int i=0;
while (i!=-1) {
    i = in.read();
    sb.append((char) i);
}
loop = false;
    }
    Thread.currentThread().sleep(50);
}

// display the response to the out console
System.out.println(sb.toString());
socket.close();
}
}

Thanks in advance for any help,
Justin

[Michael Morris]

java.net.Socket does not have a constructor that accepts two Strings for host and port. It does have a constructor that accepts a String host and int port. So change

Socket socket = new Socket("127.0.0.1", "8080");

to

Socket socket = new Socket("127.0.0.1", 8080);

and it should work.