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pbehmer on 01/23/08


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Read URL Bytes

 / Published in: Java
 

Reads the contents of a url and returns the text in a byte array.

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  1. public byte[] readUrlBytes(String address) {
  2.         byte[] byteReturn = null;
  3.         URL theURL = null;
  4.         InputStream inStream = null;
  5.         try {
  6.             theURL = new URL(address);
  7.             inStream = theURL.openStream();
  8.             byteReturn = readStream(inStream);
  9.         } catch (IOException e) {
  10.             e.printStackTrace();
  11.         } finally {
  12.             try {
  13.                 if (inStream != null) {
  14.                   inStream.close();
  15.                 }
  16.             } catch (IOException e) {
  17.                 e.printStackTrace();
  18.             }
  19.         }
  20.         return byteReturn;
  21.     }

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