Web page junk [resolved]

[filburt1]

How can I get the resulting HTML source of some URL, like http://www.cnn.com/ ? I'm sure some classes in java.net are used but none strike me immediately.

[e-mulan]

URL class. I remember there are openConncetion and openstream methods.

[filburt1]

After scrounging Google (It was hard to get good search terms) I made this which appears to work fine:

package com.turtletips;

import java.net.URL;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.BufferedReader;

public class HTMLDownloader
{
    public static String getHTMLFromURL(URL u) throws Exception
    {
        try
        {
            StringBuffer cache = new StringBuffer();
            InputStream in = u.openStream();
            int currentByte = in.read();
            while (currentByte != -1)
            {
                cache.append((char)currentByte);
                currentByte = in.read();
            }
            return new String(cache);
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            throw e;
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        try
        {
            System.out.println(HTMLDownloader.getHTMLFromURL(
                    new URL("http://www.sunspot.net/wireless/avantgo/")));
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}