• General
  • Extract network card address
  • Get the workstation name/ip
  • Find a port number not in use
  • Disable DNS caching
  • Allow user:password in URL
  • Encode/Decode to/from Base64
• Mail (Socket)
  • Lookup using MX record to validate mail server
  • Send an email using the SMTP protocol
  • Check if there is mail waiting
  • Receive email
  • Send email with an attachment
• Mail (Javamail)
  • Send email with JavaMail
  • Send email with authentication (JavaMail)
  • HTML mail with images (JavaMail)
  • Debug a Javamail Program
  • Send email with SMTPS (eg. Google GMail) (Javamail)
  • Mix plain text and HTML content in a mail
  • Read an Outlook MSG file (OpenSource packages)
  • Handle EML file with JavaMail
• HTTP
  • Check if a file was modified on the server
  • Check if a page exists
  • Connect through a Proxy
  • Identify yourself using HTTP Authentification
  • Talk to a CGI/Servlet
  • Write/Read cookies using HTTP
  • Read a GIF or CLASS from an URL save it locally
  • Resolve a relative URL
  • File Size from URL
  • Using HTTPS protocol
  • Fetch a page from Google
  • Upload a file
  • Remove HTML tags from a file to extract only the TEXT
  • Extract links from an HTML page
  • Call a web service (generated with BEA ServiceGen)
• Socket
  • Connect through a Proxy
  • Have timeout on socket connection
  • Ping a server
  • Get the Date from server
  • Use Socket's setSoLinger()
  • Use Socket's setTcpNoDelay()
  • Find who is connecting to a ServerSocket
  • Transfer a file via Socket

Networking HowTo

Written and compiled by Réal Gagnon ©1998-2010
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