Java if/else behaving strangely

Question

I\'m a real newbie to java, so please excuse me if this is a hopelessly straightforward problem.

I have the following from my java game server:

// Get in         


        

Answer 1

From the information added in your comments it seems that what will be happening is the client is sending a single character (e.g. 'n'). The line

line.substring(0,3).equals("GET")||line.substring(0,4).equals("POST"))

will be executed, but since line is only a single character line.substring(0,3) will throw a StringIndexOutOfBoundsException. Either this is causing your program to fail and you haven't mentioned that. Or you have some exception handling going on in another part of your code that you haven't shown and this is either supressing the error or printing a log line or something and again you haven't mentioned this (or noticed it).

Try replacing substring().equals with startsWith