Unresolved Host Exception

[Monu Tripathi]

I am trying to connect to a URL, open a stream and read from it. I have the following statements in my code:

URL url = new URL("http://code.google.com/android/reference/java/net/UnknownHostException.html");
URLConnection conn = url.openConnection(); 

Also, I started my emulator with -http-proxy option since, I am sitting behind a firewall and access internet via a proxy.

I get Unresolved Host Exception here. I can browse to this URL from the broswer of my emulator but not through the code, which I somehow find strange.

[Mark L. Murphy]

Did you add the INTERNET permission to your AndroidManifest.xml file?

[Monu Tripathi]

Yes: <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

I have also configured the proxy in the System table of the device(added a row in the system table)

sqlite> insert into system values(99,'http_proxy',<proxy:port>);

I restarted my emulator and now when I run the code as:

try{
    URL url = new URL("http://code.google.com/android/reference/java/net/UnknownHostException.html");   
    URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
}
catch(Exception e){
    Log.e("Exception",e.toString());// toString prints FileNotFoundException
//  Log.e("Exception",e.getMessage()); when i write this I get NullPointerException!!! 
}

I see FileNotFoundException in Log. Not sure what I am missing here.

Thanks.

[Monu Tripathi]

I read about Local Networking Limitations of Emulator; could this be a problem even after configuring the proxy and everything?

Thanks.