Java Utililty Methods URL Connection

List of utility methods to do URL Connection

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Description

The list of methods to do URL Connection are organized into topic(s).

Method

StringsendGetRequest(String urlStr)
send Get Request 
try {
    URL url = new URL(urlStr);
    URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
    BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    String line;
    while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
        sb.append(line);
...
StringsendPost(String url, String param)
send Post 
PrintWriter out = null;
BufferedReader in = null;
String result = "";
try {
    URL realUrl = new URL(url);
    URLConnection conn = realUrl.openConnection();
    conn.setRequestProperty("accept", "*/*");
    conn.setRequestProperty("connection", "Keep-Alive");
...
voidsetTimeout(URLConnection conn, int milliseconds)
set Timeout 
conn.setConnectTimeout(milliseconds);
voidsetTimeouts(URLConnection connection)
Sets timeout parameters on the given URLConnection. 
connection.setConnectTimeout(SOCKET_TIMEOUT);
connection.setReadTimeout(SOCKET_TIMEOUT);
StringshortenUrl(String url)
shorten Url 
String shortUrl = "";
try {
    URLConnection conn = new URL("https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url").openConnection();
    conn.setDoOutput(true);
    conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
    OutputStreamWriter wr = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
    wr.write("{\"longUrl\":\"" + url + "\"}");
    wr.flush();
...
voidskip(URLConnection connection, long count)
skip 
try {
    InputStream is = connection.getInputStream();
    while (count-- > 0) {
        is.read();
} catch (IOException ignored) {
StringslurpStream(URLConnection conn)
slurp Stream 
String ret = EMPTY;
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
char[] tmp = new char[8192];
int r;
while ((r = in.read(tmp, 0, 8192)) != -1) {
    ret += new String(tmp, 0, r);
in.close();
...
StringslurpURL(URL u, String encoding)
Returns all the text at the given URL. 
String lineSeparator = System.getProperty("line.separator");
URLConnection uc = u.openConnection();
uc.setReadTimeout(30000);
InputStream is;
try {
    is = uc.getInputStream();
} catch (SocketTimeoutException e) {
    System.err.println("Time out. Return empty string");
...
StringslurpURLNoExceptions(URL u)
Returns all the text at the given URL. 
try {
    return slurpURL(u);
} catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
    return null;
Listurl2list(String sURL, String encoding)
urllist 
try {
    URL url = new URL(sURL);
    URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
    InputStream is = conn.getInputStream();
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, encoding));
    List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
    String line;
    while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
...