How do you Programmatically Download a Webpage in Java

Question

I would like to be able to fetch a web page\'s html and save it to a String, so I can do some processing on it. Also, how could I handle various types of compr

Answer 1

On a Unix/Linux box you could just run 'wget' but this is not really an option if you're writing a cross-platform client. Of course this assumes that you don't really want to do much with the data you download between the point of downloading it and it hitting the disk.