/* * Copyright (c) 2004 David Flanagan. All rights reserved. * This code is from the book Java Examples in a Nutshell, 3nd Edition. * It is provided AS-IS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY either expressed or implied. * You may study, use, and modify it for any non-commercial purpose, * including teaching and use in open-source projects. * You may distribute it non-commercially as long as you retain this notice. * For a commercial use license, or to purchase the book, * please visit http://www.davidflanagan.com/javaexamples3. */ package je3.net; import java.io.*; import java.net.*; /** * This program is a very simple Web server. When it receives a HTTP request * it sends the request back as the reply. This can be of interest when * you want to see just what a Web client is requesting, or what data is * being sent when a form is submitted, for example. **/ public class HttpMirror { public static void main(String args[]) { try { // Get the port to listen on int port = Integer.parseInt(args[0]); // Create a ServerSocket to listen on that port. ServerSocket ss = new ServerSocket(port); // Now enter an infinite loop, waiting for & handling connections. for(;;) { // Wait for a client to connect. The method will block; // when it returns the socket will be connected to the client Socket client = ss.accept(); // Get input and output streams to talk to the client BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader(client.getInputStream())); PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(client.getOutputStream()); // Start sending our reply, using the HTTP 1.1 protocol out.print("HTTP/1.1 200 \r\n"); // Version & status code out.print("Content-Type: text/plain\r\n"); // The type of data out.print("Connection: close\r\n"); // Will close stream out.print("\r\n"); // End of headers // Now, read the HTTP request from the client, and send it // right back to the client as part of the body of our // response. The client doesn't disconnect, so we never get // an EOF. It does sends an empty line at the end of the // headers, though. So when we see the empty line, we stop // reading. This means we don't mirror the contents of POST // requests, for example. Note that the readLine() method // works with Unix, Windows, and Mac line terminators. String line; while((line = in.readLine()) != null) { if (line.length() == 0) break; out.print(line + "\r\n"); } // Close socket, breaking the connection to the client, and // closing the input and output streams out.close(); // Flush and close the output stream in.close(); // Close the input stream client.close(); // Close the socket itself } // Now loop again, waiting for the next connection } // If anything goes wrong, print an error message catch (Exception e) { System.err.println(e); System.err.println("Usage: java HttpMirror "); } } }