Executes an HTTP-GET request and stores locally down to a file the content of the answer - Java Network

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Executes an HTTP-GET request and stores locally down to a file the content of the answer

Demo Code


//package com.java2s;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.net.URL;

public class Main {
    /**//from w  w  w .  ja v  a  2s  . c o m
     * Executes an HTTP-GET request and stores locally down to a file the content of the answer
     * @param url the URL to post a GET to
     * @param fileName the filename to store the result of the GET request locally
     * @return true if the file was successfully created
     * @throws Exception
     */
    public static boolean getUrl(String url, String fileName)
            throws Exception {
        boolean succes = false;
        URL urlObj = new URL(url);
        InputStream inputStream = urlObj.openStream();
        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                inputStream, "UTF8"));
        BufferedWriter sortie = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(
                new FileOutputStream(fileName), "UTF-8"));

        String inputLine;
        String contenu = "";

        while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
            contenu += inputLine + "\n";

        sortie.write(contenu);
        sortie.close();

        in.close();

        try {
            File file = new File(fileName);
            if (file.exists())
                succes = true;
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return succes;
    }
}

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