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Java Network Programming
Elliotte Rusty Harold
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Table of Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
1. Why Networked Java? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
What Can a Network Program Do? 2
Security 16
But Wait! There’s More! 18
2. Basic Network Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Networks 19
The Layers of a Network 21
IP, TCP, and UDP 27
The Internet 31
The Client/Server Model 36
Internet Standards 38
3. Basic Web Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
URIs 46
HTML, SGML, and XML 53
HTTP 55
MIME Media Types 59
Server-Side Programs 63
4. Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Output Streams 68
Input Streams 72
Filter Streams 76
Readers and Writers 91
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5. Threads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Running Threads 107
Returning Information from a Thread 111
Synchronization 123
Deadlock 129
Thread Scheduling 130
Thread Pools 144
6. Looking Up Internet Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
The InetAddress Class 152
Inet4Address and Inet6Address 169
The NetworkInterface Class 170
Some Useful Programs 173
7. URLs and URIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
The URL Class 184
The URLEncoder and URLDecoder Classes 208
The URI Class 213
Proxies 222
Communicating with Server-Side Programs Through GET 225
Accessing Password-Protected Sites 229
8. HTML in Swing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
HTML on Components 237
JEditorPane 239
Parsing HTML 248
Cookies 266
9. Sockets for Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Socket Basics 275
Investigating Protocols with Telnet 276
The Socket Class 278
Socket Exceptions 304
Socket Addresses 305
Examples 306
10. Sockets for Servers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
The ServerSocket Class 325
Some Useful Servers 342
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