How to read an http input stream

Question

The code pasted below was taken from java docs on HttpURLConnection.

I get the following error:

readStream(in) 

as there is no suc

Answer 1

It looks like the documentation is just using readStream() to mean:

Ok, we've shown you how to get the InputStream, now your code goes in readStream()

So you should either write your own readStream() method which does whatever you wanted to do with the data in the first place.