java Browser component

[Suresh Appagundi]

Hi All,

Is there any java browser component to fetch the contents of any url (for example http://javaranch.com)

I dont want any UI to show like browser, but i just want to get the final content (html text) and final url.

very urgent.

thanks in advance

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

java.net.HttpURLConnection .

This is not advanced -- not even close. Moving to Sockets and Internet Protocols for followup.

[Ulf Dittmer]

If you're thinking of submitting forms as well, or working with the page you got in a DOM-like fashion, check out the HttpUnit library on SourceForge. It implements a not-so-simple browser as a GUI-less library.

[Layne Lund]

There might also be some Swing components that could help, if you want to create a GUI front end. I'm new to sockets programming, so I apologize that I cannot give anything more specific.

Layne