Connecting to a webserver

I need to write a small java app which will navigate to a webpage and retrieve the default page

This sort of this is trivial in vb - using inet control, but how can I do it in java?

The app is to be invoked from a shell script and the only output will be using system.println.

Thanks

import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;

public class URLReader {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
URL yahoo = new URL("http://www.yahoo.com/");
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(
yahoo.openStream()));

String inputLine;

while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
System.out.println(inputLine);

in.close();
}
}

Thanks VirtuallyVB
I actually found that exact same code yesterday just as I was about go home and didn't get around to mentioning it in this thread.


http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutor...eadingURL.html

Thanks again.

I wanted to give you the url for that example and also for the general tutorial page, but I only had the downloaded version handy.

Anyway, now that you found that tutorial, you have an excellent resource.