Read Text from URL in Java

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import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
 
public class DictionaryLoader {
     
    public static List<String> loadDictionaryFromUrl() {
         
        try {
             
            URL url = new URL("https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mriley/036225a575a0a33d63e965d59bd036cb/raw/4ea9b2d36ca678fff601a445fdca2ca89a6c817f/dictionary.txt");
             
            // read text returned by server
            BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(url.openStream()));
             
            List<String> ret = new ArrayList<String>();
            while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
                ret.add(line);
            }
            in.close();
            return ret;
        }
        catch (MalformedURLException e) {
            System.out.println("Malformed URL: " + e.getMessage());
        }
        catch (IOException e) {
            System.out.println("I/O Error: " + e.getMessage());
        }
         
    }
 
}