how to retrieve a html file from a URL

[nian zhang]

could you give me the piece of code to do that?

Thanks a lot.

zhangnian

[Eddy Lee Sin Ti]

 
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
<c:import url="http://anyserver/abc.htm" />

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[nian zhang]

Originally posted by Eddy Lee Sin Ti:

 
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
<c:import url="http://anyserver/abc.htm" />

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Hi, thanks for your reply. But I don't understand what's the tag used here. As far as I know(did similar project 3 years ago), there are some kind of classes could be used to retrieve the html file from a given URL.
But,I don't quite remember now. So anyone can give me a hint?

[Ben Souther]

What do you mean when you say "retieve" an HTML file?
Are you just trying to view a webpage?
If so, just create a link to it.

Please explain what you are trying to do?

[nian zhang]

Originally posted by Ben Souther:
What do you mean when you say "retieve" an HTML file?
Are you just trying to view a webpage?
If so, just create a link to it.

Please explain what you are trying to do?

i m going to get the html file as a string or stringbuffer, and do futher processing, such as extracting links, etc.

[Bear Bibeault]

Ah, you want to "screen scrape".

Check out the openConnection() method of java.net.URL.