Java HTTP Response getResponse(URL url)

Description

Returns the content of the response body for the given url

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
url	a parameter

Exception

Parameter	Description
IOException	an exception

Return

the content of the response body

Declaration

public static String getResponse(URL url) throws IOException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: Apache License 

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;

import java.net.URL;

public class Main {
    private static final String URL = "URL";
    private static final String GET = "GET";

    /**//from  w  w  w  . j a va 2s.  co m
     * Returns the content of the response body for the given url
     * 
     * @param url
     * @return the content of the response body
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public static String getResponse(URL url) throws IOException {

        StringBuffer response = new StringBuffer();
        HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
        connection.setRequestMethod(GET);
        try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()))) {

            String sCurrentLine;

            while ((sCurrentLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
                response.append(sCurrentLine);
            }
        }
        return response.toString();
    }
}

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7. getResponseContent(HttpURLConnection connection)
8. getResponseContent(HttpURLConnection httpConn)