Java Utililty Methods URL Open

List of utility methods to do URL Open

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Description

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

Method

BufferedReaderopenReader(String aUrl)
convenience method for opening a buffered reader to an url, standard timeout is set to 500 milliseconds 
URL myURL = new URL(aUrl);
HttpURLConnection c = (HttpURLConnection) myURL.openConnection();
c.setConnectTimeout(500);
return new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new BufferedInputStream(c.getInputStream()), "UTF-8"));
BufferedInputStreamopenStream(String aURL)
open Stream 
URL myURL = new URL(aURL);
HttpURLConnection c = (HttpURLConnection) myURL.openConnection();
c.setConnectTimeout(500);
return new BufferedInputStream(c.getInputStream());
InputStreamopenURL(URL source_url)
Note1: it is the caller's responsibility to close the returned InputStream. 
if (false) {
    System.out.println("Util::openUrl( " + source_url + " )");
InputStream input_stream = null;
URLConnection url_connection = source_url.openConnection();
url_connection.setUseCaches(true);
if (url_connection instanceof HttpURLConnection) {
    HttpURLConnection http_conn = (HttpURLConnection) url_connection;
...
HttpURLConnectionopenURLConnection(final URL couchdbURL)
open URL Connection 
try {
    return (HttpURLConnection) couchdbURL.openConnection();
} catch (IOException ioe) {
    throw new RuntimeException(ioe);