app engine support for HtmlUnit

Question

I'm trying to use HtmlUnit to get DOM of webpages. However, when I try to run this code on app engine development server (using the eclipse plugin):

WebClient wc=new WebClient();
HtmlPage page1= wc.getPage("http://ww.google.com/");

I get this exception:

java.net.URLStreamHandler is a restricted class.

Is it not possible to use HtmlUnit on app engine?

Answer 1

No, HtmlUnit will not work in the app engine sandbox at this time.

However, a patch for HtmlUnit to work on GAE is in progress. HtmlUnit's bug tracker issue 2962074 discusses making HtmlUnit work on GAE, and provides a preliminary patch for accomplishing this.

Answer 2

I am under the impression that HtmlUnit 2.8 should work.

What version do you use?