net.spy.net
Class HTTPFetch

java.lang.Object
  net.spy.net.HTTPFetch

public class HTTPFetch

extends Object

Oversimplified HTTP document fetcher.

Constructor Summary

HTTPFetch(String u)
Deprecated. don't pass Strings, pass URLs

HTTPFetch(String u, Map head)
Deprecated. don't pass Strings, pass URLs

HTTPFetch(URL u)
Get an HTTPFetch instance for the given URL.

HTTPFetch(URL u, Map head)
Get an HTTPFetch instance for the given URL and headers.

Method Summary

String	getData() Return the contents of the URL as a whole string.
List	getLines() Get a vector containing the individual lines of the document returned from the URL.
String	getStrippedData() Return the contents of the URL with the HTML tags stripped out.
static void	main(String[] args)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

HTTPFetch

public HTTPFetch(String u)
          throws MalformedURLException

Deprecated. don't pass Strings, pass URLs

Create a new HTTPFetch object for a given string representation of a URL.

Parameters:

u - String representation of the URL we'll be connecting to.

Throws:

MalformedURLException - Thrown if the URL cannot be parsed.

HTTPFetch

public HTTPFetch(String u,
                 Map head)
          throws MalformedURLException

Deprecated. don't pass Strings, pass URLs

Create a new HTTPFetch object for a given string representation of a URL, including a Map describing extra headers to add.

Parameters:

u - String representation of the URL we'll be connecting to.

head - Map containing headers to set.

Throws:

MalformedURLException - Thrown if the URL cannot be parsed.

HTTPFetch

public HTTPFetch(URL u)

Get an HTTPFetch instance for the given URL.

Parameters:

u - the URL to fetch

HTTPFetch

public HTTPFetch(URL u,
                 Map head)

Get an HTTPFetch instance for the given URL and headers.

Parameters:

u - URL to fetch

head - Map containing the headers to fetch

Method Detail

getLines

public List getLines()
              throws Exception

Get a vector containing the individual lines of the document returned from the URL.

Throws:

Exception - thrown when something fails.

getData

public String getData()
               throws IOException

Return the contents of the URL as a whole string.

Returns:

the contents from the URL as a String

Throws:

IOException - if there is a problem accessing the URL

getStrippedData

public String getStrippedData()
                       throws Exception

Return the contents of the URL with the HTML tags stripped out.

Throws:

Exception - thrown when something fails.

main

public static void main(String[] args)
                 throws Exception

Throws:

Exception