[android help] Creating a socket to a remote HTTP Server using android emulator

I'm very new to android programming. I have a program that uses sockets to connect to a remote host, spoof an http request, and parse the results. For some reason, my socket cannot connect to the host. I have tested the program in a standalone environment and it connects and works fine. I went ahead and isolated the function I needed and included it in my activity class to call it that way. Ive also tried calling it staticly, as well as executing` an asynchronous object and calling it from there. The internet on my android emulator works from the browser, and i've added the

To my android manifest. The code below shows where I stand right now. What do do I need to do?

public class FlightNumResults extends Activity {

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    Intent intent = getIntent();
    String value = intent.getStringExtra("input"); //if it's a string you stored.
    //super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    System.out.println("HULLO");
    System.out.println(value);
    setContentView(R.layout.loading);

    Log.i("Excecution", "Complete");
    Hashtable table = flightNumInfo(value);
    if (table == null)
        System.out.println("NULL");

    TableLayout results = (TableLayout) findViewById(R.id.resultTable);

    TableRow rowLabels = new TableRow(this);
    TableRow rowResults = new TableRow(this);
    rowLabels.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER);

    TableRow.LayoutParams params = new TableRow.LayoutParams();
    params.span = 4;

    //Column 1
    TextView destLabel = new TextView(this);  
    destLabel.setText("Destination");  
    destLabel.setTypeface(Typeface.SERIF, Typeface.BOLD);  
    TextView destResult = new TextView(this);  
    destResult.setText(table.get("destination"));  
    destResult.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_HORIZONTAL);  

    rowLabels.addView(destLabel);  
    rowResults.addView(destResult);
    //Column 2
    TextView gateLabel = new TextView(this);  
    destLabel.setText("Gate");  
    destLabel.setTypeface(Typeface.SERIF, Typeface.BOLD);  
    TextView gateResult = new TextView(this);  
    destResult.setText(table.get("gate"));  
    destResult.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_HORIZONTAL);  

    rowLabels.addView(gateLabel);  
    rowResults.addView(gateResult);
  //Column 3
    TextView scheduledLabel = new TextView(this);  
    destLabel.setText("Scheduled");  
    destLabel.setTypeface(Typeface.SERIF, Typeface.BOLD);  
    TextView scheduledResult = new TextView(this);  
    destResult.setText(table.get("scheduled"));  
    destResult.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_HORIZONTAL);  

    rowLabels.addView(scheduledLabel);  
    rowResults.addView(scheduledResult);
  //Column 4
    TextView estimatedLabel = new TextView(this);  
    destLabel.setText("estimated");  
    destLabel.setTypeface(Typeface.SERIF, Typeface.BOLD);  
    TextView estimatedResult = new TextView(this);  
    destResult.setText(table.get("scheduled"));  
    destResult.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_HORIZONTAL);  

    rowLabels.addView(estimatedLabel);  
    rowResults.addView(estimatedResult);

    results.addView(rowLabels);
    results.addView(rowResults);

    setContentView(R.layout.activity_flightnum_results);





}
public Hashtable flightNumInfo(String flightNum) {

    Hashtable table = new Hashtable();
    System.out.println("Initializing socket");
    try {
        String request = "GET /flifo/servlet/DeltaFlifo?airline_code=DL&flight_number="
                + flightNum
                + "&flight_date="
                + DateCalc.getSlashDateAndTime()
                + "&request=main&DptText=ATL HTTP/1.1";

        Socket conn = new Socket(InetAddress.getByName("www.delta.com"), 80);
        System.out.println("initialized");
        PrintWriter wr = new PrintWriter(conn.getOutputStream());

        wr.println(request);
        wr.println("Host: www.delta.com");
        wr.println("Referer: http://www.delta.com/flifo/servlet/DeltaFlifo?airline_code=DL&request=main");
        wr.println("Connection: close\n");
        wr.flush();

        Scanner in = new Scanner(conn.getInputStream());
        String myResp = new String();
        String ans = new String();

        do {
            ans = in.nextLine();
            myResp += ans;
        } while (ans.indexOf("
") < 0);

        wr.close();
        in.close();
        // System.out.println(myResp);
        Pattern p = Pattern
                .compile(" \\s+Atlanta\\s+"
                        + ""
                        + "\\(ATL\\)\\s+
 (.*?)"
                        + "
  Gate ([A-Z0-9]{2,3})\\s+"
                        + "\\s+\\s+ ([A-Za-z0-9:]{6,9})
\\s+ (.*?)\\s+"
                        + "\\s+ ([a-z0-9*?:]{6,9}|[a-zA-Z\\s]{6,9})
\\s+ (.*?)\\s+" 
                        + " (.*?)\\(([A-Z]{3})\\)");


        Matcher m = p.matcher(myResp);
        if (m.find()) {
            table.put("number", flightNum);
            table.put("gate", m.group(2));
            table.put("scheduled", m.group(3));
            table.put("estimated", m.group(5));
            table.put("destination", m.group(8));

            return table;
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        return null;
    }
    return null;
}

}

Here is what my code looks like using AsyncTask.

public class FlightNumResults extends Activity {

public String flightNum;
public Hashtable table;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    Intent intent = getIntent();
    flightNum = intent.getStringExtra("input"); // if it's a string you
                                                // stored.
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    System.out.println("HULLO");
    // System.out.println(value);

    setContentView(R.layout.loading);

    Log.i("Excecution", "Complete");
    FlightInfo fi = new FlightInfo();
    fi.execute();
    fi.flightNumInfo(flightNum);
    // Hashtable table = fi.flightNumInfo(value);

    // System.out.println(table.get("destination"));

    // setContentView(R.layout.activity_flightnum_results);



}

public class FlightInfo extends AsyncTask {
    public Socket conn;
    public PrintWriter wr;
    public DataInputStream dis;
    public DataOutputStream dos;
    @Override
    protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {
        try {
             conn = new Socket(InetAddress.getByName("www.delta.com"), 80);
        }catch (Exception e){
            Log.i("AsyncTank", "Can't create socket");
        }
        if (conn.isConnected()){
            try {
                dis = (DataInputStream)conn.getInputStream();
                dos = (DataOutputStream)conn.getOutputStream();
                Log.i("AsyncTank", "doInBackgoung: Socket created, Streams assigned");

            } catch (IOException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                Log.i("AsyncTank", "doInBackgoung: Cannot assign Streams, Socket not connected");
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        } else {
            Log.i("AsyncTank", "doInBackgoung: Cannot assign Streams, Socket is closed");
        }
        return null;

        }
    protected void onPostExecute(Boolean result) {
        if (result) {
            Log.i("AsyncTask", "onPostExecute: Completed with an Error.");

        } else {
            Log.i("AsyncTask", "onPostExecute: Completed.");

        }
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_flightnum_results);

    }



        public  void flightNumInfo(String flightNum) {

              table = new Hashtable();

                String request = "GET /flifo/servlet/DeltaFlifo?airline_code=DL&flight_number="
                        + flightNum
                        + "&flight_date="
                        + DateCalc.getSlashDateAndTime()
                        + "&request=main&DptText=ATL HTTP/1.1";

                //Socket conn = new Socket(InetAddress.getByName("www.delta.com"), 80);

                wr = new PrintWriter(dos);

                wr.println(request);
                wr.println("Host: www.delta.com");
                wr.println("Referer: http://www.delta.com/flifo/servlet/DeltaFlifo?airline_code=DL&request=main");
                wr.println("Connection: close\n");
                wr.flush();

                Scanner in = new Scanner(dis);
                String myResp = new String();
                String ans = new String();

                do {
                    ans = in.nextLine();
                    myResp += ans;
                } while (ans.indexOf("
") < 0);

                wr.close();
                in.close();

                // System.out.println(myResp);
                Pattern p = Pattern
                        .compile(" \\s+Atlanta\\s+"
                                + ""
                                + "\\(ATL\\)\\s+
 (.*?)"
                                + "
  Gate ([A-Z0-9]{2,3})\\s+"
                                + "\\s+\\s+ ([A-Za-z0-9:]{6,9})
\\s+ (.*?)\\s+"
                                + "\\s+ ([a-z0-9*?:]{6,9}|[a-zA-Z\\s]{6,9})
\\s+ (.*?)\\s+" 
                                + " (.*?)\\(([A-Z]{3})\\)");


                Matcher m = p.matcher(myResp);
                if (m.find()) {
                    table.put("number", flightNum);
                    table.put("gate", m.group(2));
                    table.put("scheduled", m.group(3));
                    table.put("estimated", m.group(5));
                    table.put("destination", m.group(8));


                }




        }
    }
}

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