What does this socket error mean? - html

Question

First of all thanks to everyone that answers questions on here. I have used this forum as a java bible. This is a homework problem and here is the assignment:
Write a program in Java that uses sockets to connect to a web server on port 80, requests a web page using GET of the HTTP protocol, and displays the resulting HTML
Not sure if I am doing this right or not. I have a very limited understanding of java. Most of this is from tutorials I have been going through. Any website links would be greatly appreciated.
Here is my error message:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problems:
Type mismatch: cannot convert from java.net.Socket to Socket
The method getInputStream() is undefined for the type Socket
Here is my code:
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
public class Server
{
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
Server SERVER = new Server();
SERVER.run();
}
public void run() throws Exception
{
ServerSocket one = new ServerSocket(80);
//these are the two lines of code it is warning about
Socket myskt = one.accept();
InputStreamReader IR = new InputStreamReader(myskt.getInputStream());
//end of warnings
BufferedReader BR = new BufferedReader(IR);
String message = BR.readLine();
System.out.println(message);
if (message != null)
{
PrintStream PS = new PrintStream(System.out);
PS.println("Message Received");
}
URL website = new URL("www.dogs.com");
URLConnection yc = website.openConnection();
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
yc.getInputStream()));
String inputLine;
while ((inputLine = in .readLine()) != null)
System.out.println(inputLine);
one.close();
}
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}

Answer 1

The issue is that our code is not well-formed - you have a compilation error. My guess is that you have a class Socket in the same package as the class you're compiling, or a left-over class file (Socket.class) on the classpath. When the compiler runs, it uses the package local version of Socket, which is not the same type as java.net.Socket - hence the exception.
To resolve thisuse the fully qualified name java.net.Socket when declaring myskt