Chain the InputStream to a Reader : URLConnection « Network « Java Tutorial

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2. Network
3. URLConnection

import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;

public class MainClass {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

    URL u = new URL("http://www.java2s.com");
    URLConnection uc = u.openConnection();
    InputStream raw = uc.getInputStream();
    InputStream buffer = new BufferedInputStream(raw);
    // chain the InputStream to a Reader
    Reader r = new InputStreamReader(buffer);
    int c;
    while ((c = r.read()) != -1) {
      System.out.print((char) c);
    }
  }

}