parsing url content into string

[Marko Debac]

Hi,

I am trying to do the same thing what I am doing with jsp import tag

<c:import var='abc' url='http://www.yahoo.com'/>
<c :-o	 ut value="${abc}" />    

within some class what I can invoke frome servlet: something like this

 
URL abc = new URL("http://yahoo.com");
    

But something is wrong?

[Mirko Bonasorte]

Hi,
c ut also formats the result for html output (by default)
[ May 30, 2007: Message edited by: Mirko Bonasorte ]

[Marko Debac]

Ok, but, is there some way to take web page content source code, and put it into String in pure java, i.e. not using jstl import?

[Mirko Bonasorte]

It would be a nice idea to watch inside the jakarta jstl implementation, class ImportSupport.
It uses URLConnection got from URL class.

[Marko Debac]

I can not find the solution.
Is there any other option, maybe some simple function where you enter url and she gives you out html source like String?

String abc = function(url); ???

[Bear Bibeault]

You might also want to check out the HttpClient project. it makes such things very very easy.

[Marko Debac]

Bear, plese help me a little bit;

I have downloaded zip file commons-httpclient-3.1-rc1, extracted them, and input commons-httpclient-3.1-rc1.jar into project.

my code is:

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.GetMethod;
 
public class Main {    
 
    public Main() {
    }
  
    public static void main(String[] args) {
       
      String url = "http://www.yahoo.com";
      GetMethod get = new GetMethod(url);
      String letters = get.getResponseBodyAsString();
      System.out.println(letters);
    }   
    
} 
 
   

and I am getting error

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory
        at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase.<clinit>(HttpMethodBase.java:104)
    

Am I closer?

[Bear Bibeault]

HttpClient apparently requires the Commons Logging jar to be in the classpath.