Java HTTP Get httpGet(String urlToRead)

Description

Performs synchronous HTTP GET request, returns the response.

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
urlToRead	a parameter

Exception

Parameter	Description
Exception	an exception

Declaration

public static String httpGet(String urlToRead) throws Exception 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: Open Source License 

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.Proxy;
import java.net.URL;

public class Main {
    /**/*from  w w w  .  j av  a  2 s. c o  m*/
     * Performs synchronous HTTP GET request, returns the response.
     *
     * @param urlToRead
     * @return
     * @throws Exception
     */
    public static String httpGet(String urlToRead) throws Exception {
        return httpGet(urlToRead, Proxy.NO_PROXY);
    }

    public static String httpGet(String urlToRead, Proxy proxy) throws Exception {
        StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
        URL url = new URL(urlToRead);
        HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(proxy);
        conn.setRequestMethod("GET");
        BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
        String line;
        while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
            result.append(line);
        }
        rd.close();
        return result.toString();
    }
}

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3. httpGet(String url, StringBuffer response)
4. httpGet(String urlStr)
5. httpGet(String urlStr)
6. httpGetString(String url)
7. readUrl(final String strUrl)
8. readURL(final String textURL)
9. readUrl(HttpURLConnection conn)