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From: Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net>
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Subject: Re: Read url into a string?
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:00:20 -0800
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On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:09:10 -0800 (PST), SpreadTooThin
<bjobrien62@gmail.com> wrote:

>I want to open a url and read it into a string.
>That string will be passed onto a json parser.
>I tried this.. but it's doing nothing...
>
>import java.net;
>import java.io.*;
>
>function getURL(url) {
>   URL hp = new URL(url);
>   URLConnection yc = hp.openConnection();
>   BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new
>InputStreamReader(yc.getInputStream()));
>   String inputLine;
>   while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
>   {
>      alert(inputLine);
>      in.close();
>   }
>}

     JavaScript is not Java.  Try posting to a Java newsgroup.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko