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Connor Albright
Connor Albright

Reputation: 733

linking to an html page

I want to be able to type in a web address in my java application and view the html behind that web page. I am lost. How do I start?

The main question is how do I link to the html behind a webpage?

Any meta information would help. I haven't done any web stuff before.

Thanks guys, thats a huge help!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 820

Answers (3)

Kissaki
Kissaki

Reputation: 9217

The main question is how do I link to the html behind a webpage?

There is no difference in linking to a website or the html behind a website. It always points to the HTML source code.

What differs is what is done with it. A webbrowser will interpret and format it and display it to you as a styled website. You can still check its source in your browser though. A Text editor will only display the HTML markup to you.

Upvotes: 2

Johan Sjöberg
Johan Sjöberg

Reputation: 49187

The html behind the page you are referring to is in all essence the page. When the browser fetches the page it interprets it and renders it in a user friendly way.

When you do it programmatically there is no rendering. Hence the content of the page is the html. I would recommend using Apache HttpClient to perform HTTP requests, or the URL method nicely described by @aioobe.

Upvotes: 2

aioobe
aioobe

Reputation: 420951

If you're just interested in the source of the page on a specific URL, you can use the URL class and the openConnection / getInputStream methods:

This sample program prints the content of http://www.google.com:

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class Test {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        URL url = new URL("http://www.google.com");

        Scanner s = new Scanner(url.openConnection().getInputStream());
        while (s.hasNextLine())
            System.out.println(s.nextLine());
    }
}

Upvotes: 2

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