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I am hosting a simple PHP echo server locally. I am trying to send a message to the server in Java, and use a GET request to print the response but am getting a 'malformed HTTP request' error. Can anyone tell me how to correctly format the GET request?
//Client code:
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
public class TCPclient {
public static void main(String argv[]) throws Exception {
String sentence, modifiedSentence;
BufferedReader inFromUser = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
Socket clientSocket = new Socket("localhost", 8000);
DataOutputStream outToServer = new DataOutputStream(clientSocket.getOutputStream());
BufferedReader inFromServer = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(clientSocket.getInputStream()));
sentence = inFromUser.readLine();
outToServer.writeBytes(sentence + "\n");
outToServer.writeChars("GET /echo.php HTTP/1.1" +"\n");
modifiedSentence = inFromServer.readLine();
System.out.println("FROM SERVER: " + modifiedSentence);
inFromServer.close();
outToServer.close();
inFromUser.close();
clientSocket.close();
}
}
//PHP Server code:
<?php
/* Simple php echo page
*/
// ini_set('display_errors', 'On');
// error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT);
if(isset($_GET['source'])) {
if ($_GET['source'] == "raw")
echo file_get_contents(basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']));
else
echo "<pre>" . htmlspecialchars(file_get_contents(basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']))) . "</pre>";
} else if (isset($_GET['message'])){
echo strtoupper( htmlspecialchars($_GET['message'])) . '\n';
} else {
?>
<html>
<head>
<title>Error: No input message</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1> No message</h1>
<p>Echo server called without sending parameter</p>
</body>
</html>
<?php
}
?>
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asked Sep 21 '26 06:09
An http server understand words like GET, POST, PUT, DELETE. So here's a problem:
outToServer.writeBytes(sentence + "\n");
outToServer.writeChars("GET /echo.php HTTP/1.1" +"\n");
The first statement there is telling something to the http server that it doesn't understand: the sentence. Comment out that line and your request becomes valid, and you will get a response.
I guess you want to post the sentence as a parameter to the echo service. You can put it in the query string:
outToServer.writeChars("GET /echo.php?message=" + sentence + " HTTP/1.0\n\n");
I also changed the HTTP version and appended an extra \n as pointed out by the comment of Steffen Ullrich:
Also you must add empty line to mark the end of the header. And the line ending must be \r\n not \n. And you should better do a HTTP/1.0 request not HTTP/1.1 since your code is neither able to deal with HTTP keep-alive nor with HTTP chunked encoding
However, this is not quite enough. You also need to encode some characters, such as spaces. The URL in the get request must be encoded, as pointed out by @zapl in a comment.
I also recommend to test your echo service first using simple telnet:
telnet localhost 8000
There, you can type your message, "GET /echo.php?message=something" and verify it works. Once you find something that works as intended, you can update the Java code accordingly.
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