Running under JDK 1.0.2 (or equivalent)

If you wish to run the client under JDK 1.0.2 then you must unzip the JDK_1_0_2_classes.zip file (it is located in the HTTPClient directory). This file contains JDK 1.0.2 compatible replacements for the Util, HTTPResponse, and HttpURLConnection classes and for the popup boxes (both sources and class files are provided). All the other classes will run fine as they are under JDK 1.0.2. However, under JDK 1.0.2 the functionality is restricted as follows:

• The timeout won't influence the reading of the responses. This is because JDK 1.0.2 didn't support a timeout for Sockets. The timeout will still work for creating connections, though.

• stop() may hang on some systems for a while. This is because the socket option SO_LINGER cannot be disabled (SO_LINGER controls whether a close() will wait until all pending data has been sent, or whether it will return immediately).

• The TransferEncodingModule and ContentEncodingModule will be disabled. They both use the GZIPInputStream and DeflateInputStream which are only avaialble in JDK 1.1 or later.

Note also that this version of the HTTPClient won't compile under JDK 1.0.2. There are a few calls to methods which only exist in JDK 1.1 or later. These are protected by try/catch statements so that the code will still run under JDK 1.0.2, but to compile it you'll have to comment these out.