Java URLConnection Create openURL(String url)

Description

This is for opening URLs only provided by the programmer.

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static InputStream openURL(String url) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: Open Source License 

import java.io.InputStream;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;

public class Main {
    /** This is for opening URLs only provided by the programmer.
     * URLs provided by the user should be checked for errors and the
     * user notified. Only use this if you have a single response to
     * any non-content situation on opening a URL
     *//*from w w w .  ja  v a 2 s. c  o  m*/
    public static InputStream openURL(String url) {
        URL urlObject;
        InputStream res = null;
        try {
            urlObject = new URL(url);
            URLConnection conn = urlObject.openConnection();
            res = conn.getInputStream();
        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return res;
    }
}

Related

1. openConnection(URL url)
2. openConnection(URL url)
3. openConnectionForceNoProxy(URL url)
4. openConnectionTo(URL descriptor)
5. openInputStream(URL url)
6. openURLStream(final URI uri)