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// These two need to be declared outside the try/catch | |
// so that they can be closed in the finally block. | |
HttpURLConnection urlConnection = null; | |
BufferedReader reader = null; | |
// Will contain the raw response as a string. | |
String response = null; | |
try { | |
// Construct the URL for query | |
String baseUrl = "http://wwww.mcomputing.eu"; | |
URL url = new URL(baseUrl); | |
// Create the request, and open the connection | |
urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); | |
urlConnection.setRequestMethod("GET"); | |
urlConnection.connect(); | |
// Read the input stream into a String | |
InputStream inputStream = urlConnection.getInputStream(); | |
StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer(); | |
if (inputStream == null) { | |
// Nothing to do. | |
return null; | |
} | |
reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream)); | |
String line; | |
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) { | |
// Since it's HTML, adding a newline isn't necessary (it won't affect parsing) | |
// But it does make debugging a *lot* easier if you print out the completed | |
// buffer for debugging. | |
buffer.append(line + "\n"); | |
} | |
if (buffer.length() == 0) { | |
// Stream was empty. | |
return null; | |
} | |
response = buffer.toString(); | |
} catch (IOException e) { | |
// we didn't successfully get the data | |
return null; | |
} finally{ | |
if (urlConnection != null) { | |
urlConnection.disconnect(); | |
} | |
if (reader != null) { | |
try { | |
reader.close(); | |
} catch (final IOException e) { | |
//handle exception | |
} | |
} |
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