Reading data from Internet

This URL seems to be pretty useful for this purpose.

http://java.sys-con.com/node/39248

Always use BufferedReader while reading InputStreams. Not using BufferedReader would lead to corrupt data and may not give correct results.

Code snippet is as given below :

            HttpURLConnection hpCon;
            hp = new URL(url);
            hpCon = (HttpURLConnection)hp.openConnection();
            InputStream in = hpCon.getInputStream();
            InputStreamReader inStream = new InputStreamReader(in);
            BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(inStream);

            String tempString="";
            while(true)
            {

                tempString = input.readLine();
                if(tempString == null) break;
                output.append(tempString);
            }
            hp = null;
            hpCon = null;