Java URL Load readURL(String url)

Description

Read data from a properly formatted URL and return it as a string.

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static String readURL(String url) throws MalformedURLException, IOException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
// for Our Notice and the LICENSE file for the GNU Lesser General Public

import java.io.BufferedReader;

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;

public class Main {
    private final static String EOL = "\n";

    /**/*from w  w  w.  jav  a  2 s . c o m*/
     * Read data from a properly formatted URL and return it as a string.
     * This method may throw a <code>MalformedURLException</code> if the
     * URL is improperly formatted or an <code>IOException</code> if there
     * is a problem reading the URL data.
     */
    public static String readURL(String url) throws MalformedURLException, IOException {
        InputStream is = new URL(url).openStream();
        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));

        StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
        String line = null;
        while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
            buffer.append(line);
            buffer.append(EOL);
        }
        is.close();

        return buffer.toString();
    }
}

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