Accessing web Page

[Jubri Siji]

I am interested in developing a Java Program that can access a web page and pull out the necessary information i need. Does any one have an idea of where i can start from

Jubri
SCJP

[Stan James]

Here's a primitive example:

try
{
    // 05/07/2004 JLS Removed the JSSE change because JDK 1.4 supports use of
    // HTTPS addresses in URL without this step. We'll just see about that.
    // 07/17/2002 JLS Added following statements to handle HTTPS
    // java.security.Security.addProvider(new com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider());
    // System.setProperty("java.protocol.handler.pkgs",
    //                   "com.sun.net.ssl.internal.www.protocol");
    // 07/17/2002 end
 
    lURL   = new URL( mURL );
    BufferedReader lData = new BufferedReader(
                              new InputStreamReader(
                                 new BufferedInputStream(
                                    lURL.openStream() )));
   while (true)
   {
       lLine = lData.readLine();
       if ( null == lLine ) break;
       lBuffer.append( lLine );
   }
   lData.close();
}

See if you can't improve on that!