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By 3monkeys
via java.sys-con.com
Published: Sep 14 2006 / 12:16

Reading Data from the Internet -- Java Basics
Just open the stream over the network. Java has a class URL that will help you to connect to a remote computer on the Internet.
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wytten replied ago:

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Why is he reading 1 byte at a time in FileDownloader

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ilazarte replied ago:

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Commons IO:
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/io/description.html

InputStream in = new URL ("http://jakarta.apache.org").openStream();
try {
System.out.println( IOUtils.toString( in ) );
} finally {
IOUtils.closeQuietly(in);
}

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3monkeys replied ago:

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From ilazarte's article, for a little added clarity:
<quote>In certain application domains, such IO operations are common, and this class can save a great deal of time. And you can rely on well-tested code.

For utility code such as this, flexibility and speed are of primary importance. However you should also understand the limitations of this approach. Using the above technique to read a 1GB file would result in an attempt to create a 1GB String object!<quote>

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