Reading entire html file to String?

Question

Are there better ways to read an entire html file to a single string variable than:

    String content = "";
    try {
        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("mypage.html"));
        String str;
        while ((str = in.readLine()) != null) {
            content +=str;
        }
        in.close();
    } catch (IOException e) {
    }

Answer 1

Here's a solution to retrieve the html of a webpage using only standard java libraries:

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

String urlToRead = "https://google.com";
URL url; // The URL to read
HttpURLConnection conn; // The actual connection to the web page
BufferedReader rd; // Used to read results from the web page
String line; // An individual line of the web page HTML
String result = ""; // A long string containing all the HTML
try {
 url = new URL(urlToRead);
 conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
 conn.setRequestMethod("GET");
 rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
 while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
  result += line;
 }
 rd.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
 e.printStackTrace();
}

System.out.println(result);

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