how read a file text from internet ?

[marco tognoni]

hi,
I want to read a text file from URL,
how can I do it ?
thanks

[Juanjo Bazan]

You can follow this steps:
Create your proper URL instance: URL target=new URL(the_file_address);
Make an URLConnection urlc=New URLConnection(myURL);
Get the text file as a stream you can read/save/etc... with
urlc.getInputStream();
You can also get the same InputStream from your URL instance with openStream().
-HTH

[marco tognoni]

I do what you told me,
but it goes error:
java.net.NoRouteToHostException: No route to host: connect
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:295)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:161)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:148)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:425)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:375)

[Rene Larsen]

Show us your code...
Rene

[Rene Larsen]

I've made a code sample:

import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
public class URLTest {
   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
      URL url = new URL("http://www.javaranch.com");
      URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
      StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
      BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
      String str = "";
      while ((str = input.readLine()) != null ) {
          buffer.append(str).append("\n");
      }
      System.out.println(buffer);
      input.close();
      conn = null;
   }
}

hope this helps
Rene

[Juanjo Bazan]

You get this error messages because you are doing something wrong, take a look at how Rene uses the URL, URLConnection classes in the example above.
Check you write the address properly (http://...)