Hello to all from a processing newbie!

my first question to you is about the library HTMLParser in general and to get the html-code of a site by using a proxy as my specific problem.

To get this done, and because i can't find an example, i did the following:
Code:

void getDataFromClient()
{
  org.htmlparser.Parser ps;
  ConnectionManager cm;

  // get the connection-manager
  cm = Parser.getConnectionManager();

  // set the proxy-data i find in the java-docs of the library
  cm.setProxyHost("[the proxy of my company]");
  cm.setProxyPort([the proxy-port]);
  cm.setProxyUser("[my user-id");
  cm.setProxyPassword("[my password]");

  ps = new org.htmlparser.Parser ("[url to get the html-code from]");
    
  OrFilter orf = new OrFilter();

  NodeFilter[] nfls = new NodeFilter[1];

  nfls[0] = new TagNameFilter("html");

  orf.setPredicates(nfls);

  NodeList nList = ps.parse(orf);
  Node     node  = nList.elementAt (0);

  this.parseTree(node);
}
 

When runnning this code from within processing, i get the following error-message:
Code:

org.htmlparser.util.ParserException: Unexpected end of file from server;
java.net.SocketException: Unexpected end of file from server

at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTPHeader(Unknown Source)
 

no matter which url i use to feed the program.

the error comes up right after Code:

 ps = new org.htmlparser.Parser ("[url to get the html-code from]");
 

Can anyone give me a hint where the error is
Where's my mistake, what is missing from the code
Does anyone know if there's a documentation about HTMLParser

(the code is part of htmlgrapher which can be found at http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph; i used it as a start in processing and want to get it running from my companys intranet)