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How To: Expand a shortened URL in Java
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
/**
* http://blog.tomtasche.at/2011/07/how-to-expand-shortened-url-in-java.html
*
* @author Thomas Taschauer
*
*/
public class URLExpander {
public static String expand(String url) {
try {
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(url).openConnection();
connection.setInstanceFollowRedirects(true);
connection.getInputStream().read();
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return null;
}
}
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