Unknown socket error -1 (HTTP, Socket, URL, Internet)

plusminus · by **plusminus** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 4:06 am

Hey fellow devs,

if you receive an error like this ( [font=Courier New]unknown socket error -1[/font] ), doing anything with a web-connection. you'll have to add the following Entry to your [font=Courier New]AndroidManifest.xml[/font] directly under the [font=Courier New]<manifest ... />[/font] -node:

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<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
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This is how your error might look like:

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10-01 13:07:00.072: ERROR/OSNetworkSystem(2834): unknown socket error -1
10-01 13:07:00.093: ERROR/WeatherForcaster(2834): WeatherQueryError
10-01 13:07:00.093: ERROR/WeatherForcaster(2834): java.net.SocketException: unknown error
10-01 13:07:00.093: ERROR/WeatherForcaster(2834):     at org.apache.harmony.luni.platform.OSNetworkSystem.createSocketImpl(Native Method)
10-01 13:07:00.093: ERROR/WeatherForcaster(2834):     at org.apache.harmony.luni.platform.OSNetworkSystem.createSocket(OSNetworkSystem.java:79)
10-01 13:07:00.093: ERROR/WeatherForcaster(2834):     at org.apache.harmony.luni.net.PlainSocketImpl2.create(PlainSocketImpl2.java:59)
10-01 13:07:00.093: ERROR/WeatherForcaster(2834):     at java.net.Socket.checkClosedAndCreate(Socket.java:763)
10-01 13:07:00.093: ERROR/WeatherForcaster(2834):     at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:910)
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