Is there a way to read HTML into a string from a URL

[Fritz Largosa]

For example I want a method which accepts a url and returns the html source of the target page. Anybody know if this can be done? Any documentations I can read or sample codes? I do not seem to find any information regarding this.

Pseudocode:

String html_source = method_get_html_source("http://www.my_page/page1.html");

[Bear Bibeault]

Yes, but as this has nothing to do with JSP, I'll first move this to the Servlets forum.

[Bear Bibeault]

Investigate the URL and URLConnection classes, or save yourself some trouble and look up the HttpClient project.

[Bear Bibeault]

Or, are you really trying to do this from a JSP rather than with java code? (and without java code in a JSP which is a no-no)

[Fritz Largosa]

Ok I will look that up, I can use either servlet or JSP. Thanks.

[Ulf Dittmer]

It could be as simple as:

URL url = new URL("http://www.yahoo.com/");
InputStream is = (InputStream) url.getContent();

[Bear Bibeault]

In a JSP, look into <c:import>.