Read content string from a URL - Java Network

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Description

Read content string from a URL

Demo Code

import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;

public class Reverse {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

        if (args.length != 2) {
            System.err.println("Usage:  java Reverse "
                    + "http://<location of your servlet/script>"
                    + " string_to_reverse");
            System.exit(1);/*from w  w  w  .  ja va 2s .  co m*/
        }

        String stringToReverse = URLEncoder.encode(args[1], "UTF-8");

        URL url = new URL(args[0]);
        URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
        connection.setDoOutput(true);

        OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter(
                connection.getOutputStream());
        out.write("string=" + stringToReverse);
        out.close();

        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                connection.getInputStream()));
        String decodedString;
        while ((decodedString = in.readLine()) != null) {
            System.out.println(decodedString);
        }
        in.close();
    }
}

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