Trying to read from a URL(in Java) produces gibberish on certain occaisions

Question

I\'m trying to read from a URL, and then print the result.

BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
     new InputStreamReader(new URL(\"http://somesite.com/\").o         


        

Answer 1

I had the same issue until I used HttpURLConnection with setChunkedStreamingMode set.

            HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection)serverAddress.openConnection();
            connection.setRequestMethod("GET");
            connection.setDoOutput(true);
            connection.setReadTimeout(2000);
            connection.setChunkedStreamingMode(0);

            connection.connect();

            BufferedReader rd  = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));

            String line = "";

            while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null)
            {
                sb.append(line);
            }

            System.out.println(sb.toString());