How to download WWW pages

[Rob Ketzscher]

This is probably extremely easy for most of you, but how do I download the
source code of a web page?

Say I got an applet and when I press a button it will then go download the
HTML source code (as plain text) for a certain web address, say
http://abc.com/index.html and I can then manually (well with other Java
code) go through the page and extract the information I want and then
display it in my applet. I don't want to actually show the page in my
applet. The reason behind this is that I would like to extract some table
entries from an external page and combine the results. Going through the
source code shouldn't be to hard.

Many thanks for any help

Rob

[PerfectDayToChaseTornados]

"Rob Ketzscher" <ke*******@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:cf**********@wisteria.csv.warwick.ac.uk...
| This is probably extremely easy for most of you, but how do I download the
| source code of a web page?
|
| Say I got an applet and when I press a button it will then go download the
| HTML source code (as plain text) for a certain web address, say
| http://abc.com/index.html and I can then manually (well with other Java
| code) go through the page and extract the information I want and then
| display it in my applet. I don't want to actually show the page in my
| applet. The reason behind this is that I would like to extract some table
| entries from an external page and combine the results. Going through the
| source code shouldn't be to hard.
|
| Many thanks for any help
|
| Rob

Look in the java.net package, there is plenty there to get you started :-)
--
-P
"Much as some folks hate to lose their way, me, I pray to God that I will."
|

[KrOoSh]

You can make use of HttpClient
(http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/) to retrieve the page,
then do whatever you want with it.

"Rob Ketzscher" <ke*******@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<cf**********@wisteria.csv.warwick.ac.uk>...

This is probably extremely easy for most of you, but how do I download the
source code of a web page?

Say I got an applet and when I press a button it will then go download the
HTML source code (as plain text) for a certain web address, say
http://abc.com/index.html and I can then manually (well with other Java
code) go through the page and extract the information I want and then
display it in my applet. I don't want to actually show the page in my
applet. The reason behind this is that I would like to extract some table
entries from an external page and combine the results. Going through the
source code shouldn't be to hard.

Many thanks for any help

Rob