Networking - Java 8 Recipes - page 847

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
public class GenerateAndReadUrl {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
// Generate absolute URL
URL url1 = new URL("http://www.java.net");
System.out.println(url1.toString());
// Generate URL for pages with a common base
URL url2 = new URL(url1, "search/node/jdk8");
// Generate URL from different pieces of data
URL url3 = new URL("http", "java.net",
"search/node/jdk8");
readFromUrl(url1);
} catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
/**
* Open URL stream as an input stream and print
contents to command line.
*
* @param url
*/
public static void readFromUrl(URL url) {
try {
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(
url.openStream()));