Getting data from a URL
There are three methods in the URL class for retrieving data from a URL :
public final InputStream openStream()
- returns a stream to the data.
public URLConnection openConnection()
- is used to communicate directly with the server. It gives access to the raw data.
public final Object getContent()
- tries to parse the data into an Object representing the data based on the returned MIME-type. A content-handler for each type must exists but in JDK only a few are available: text/plain, text/generic, image/gif and image/jpeg.
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