Java URL Connection getDataFromServer(URL url)

Description

get Data From Server

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
url	a parameter

Exception

Parameter	Description
IOException	an exception

Return

Returns data from the server with a given url

Declaration

public static String getDataFromServer(URL url) throws IOException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*******************************************************************************
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 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
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 *******************************************************************************/

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;

import java.io.InputStreamReader;

import java.net.URL;

public class Main {
    /**/*from  w  w w  .ja  v  a2  s. c o  m*/
     * @param url
     * @return Returns data from the server with a given url
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public static String getDataFromServer(URL url) throws IOException {
        java.net.URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
        conn.setDoInput(true);
        conn.setDoOutput(false);

        BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
        String line;
        while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
            if (line.trim().length() > 0) {
                sb.append(line);
            }
        }

        rd.close();

        return sb.toString();
    }
}

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6. getDefaultUrlConnection(URL url)
7. getFeedReader(URL feedUrl)
8. getFromUrl(String url)
9. getGlobalAddress(String url)