After you create a URL, you will probably want to fetch contents. The easiest way to do this is by calling the getContent method

public final Object getContent()

This first method requires that you define a content handler for the content returned by the URL

The following example dumps the content of a URL to the System.out.stream by opening an input stream to the URL and reading one byte at a time.

Example

import java.net.*;

import java.io.*;
class Example1
{
public static void main(String args[]0
{
try {
URL url=new URL(getDocumentBase(),”main.html”);
InputStream in=url.openStream();
int b;
while(b=in.read()!=-1)
{
System.out.println((char)b);
} catch(Exception e)
{ System.out.println(“Exception Due to –>”+e);
e.printStackTrace();
}

Getting URL Information

You can retrieve the specific pieces of URL using the following methods

public String getProtocol()
public String getHost()
public String getPort()
public String getFile()