Connection timed out issue while accessing URL

[Gautamaxa roy]

 Hi ,

     i am trying to connect the following URL using java code but Exception in thread "main" java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect is blocking the
     progress. I am able to access the URL from browser in the same machine. Attached Header information details with this post.

      http://www.omdbapi.com/?t=Pagal&i=tt3896198&apikey=6c3a2d45;
         
          My code is as below

             

                  public static void openConnectionSilvaREST() throws IOException{
         	       
	        String urlStr="http://www.omdbapi.com/?t=Pagal&i=tt3896198&apikey=6c3a2d45";
	               
	         URL url = new URL(urlStr);
	         	         
	         HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
			
	             connection.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");	               
	               connection.setRequestProperty("Request Method","GET");	                                
	                System.out.println("request123:::"+connection.getHeaderFields().toString());
	                System.out.println("---->"+connection.getInputStream().toString());
	                
	                BufferedReader br1 = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
	                
	                String output1;
	                System.out.println("Input  To Server .... \n");
	                while ((output1 = br1.readLine()) != null) {
	                System.out.println(output1);
	                }
	                
	                
			connection.setConnectTimeout(300000);
			connection.setReadTimeout(300000);
			connection.connect();
		
	                
	                int status = connection.getResponseCode();
			System.out.println("status.............."+status);
			
			if (connection.getResponseCode() != 200) {
				throw new RuntimeException("Failed : HTTP error code : "
						+ connection.getResponseCode());
			}
	                BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
	                String output;
	                System.out.println("Output from Server .... \n");
	                while ((output = br.readLine()) != null) {
	                System.out.println(output);
	                }
	         
	       
	         }

               

[Tim Moores]

I can't reproduce the issue - accessing the URL works fine both on the browser and via that Java code, and returns the same JSON.

[Paul Clapham]

It's possible that Gautamaxa's browser is using a proxy server to connect to the internet. If that's the case then the Java code isn't using the proxy server and therefore can't connect to the internet at all.

If that's what is happening here, then if I'm not mistaken there are system properties which allow Java code to use a proxy server.

[Rob Spoor]

There are: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/net/doc-files/net-properties.html#Proxies

You can also specify a proxy in the call to openConnection.