Here you can find the source of read(URL file)
public static String read(URL file) throws IOException
//package com.java2s; /**//w w w. j a va 2 s.c o m * Copyright (C) 2008 Ovea <dev@testatoo.org> * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ import java.io.BufferedOutputStream; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.io.OutputStream; import java.io.Reader; import java.io.StringWriter; import java.io.Writer; import java.net.URL; public class Main { private static final int DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE = 1024 * 4; public static String read(URL file) throws IOException { BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(file.openStream())); try { StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(); copy(input, sw); return sw.toString(); } finally { input.close(); } } public static void copy(InputStream in, OutputStream out) throws IOException { byte[] buffer = new byte[DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE]; int n; while (-1 != (n = in.read(buffer))) { out.write(buffer, 0, n); } } public static void copy(Reader input, Writer output) throws IOException { char[] buffer = new char[DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE]; int n; while (-1 != (n = input.read(buffer))) { output.write(buffer, 0, n); } } public static void copy(InputStream in, File dest) throws IOException { OutputStream out = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(dest)); try { copy(in, out); } finally { out.flush(); out.close(); } } }