Address is invalid on local machine, or port is not valid on remote machine

I’m trying to open a simple HTTP connection in java installed on Windows 8, Unfortunately the process ended up with an error

Exception in thread “main” java.net.ConnectException: connect: Address is invalid on local machine, or port is not valid on remote machine
at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.connect0(Native Method)
at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
at org.grassfield.TestUrl.main(TestUrl.java:19)

Quoting from  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15105357/address-is-invalid-on-local-machine-on-windows-8-only

I believe that this issue is caused by Java attempting to use an IPV6 address, when either your OS doesn’t support it, or is not set up properly to handle it.

You can force Java to use an IPV4 address with the following property:

-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true

It works after the new JVM parameter

Dindigul 018

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