How to read a web page as an ascii file

Question

I need to open an url and read the contents, as it
were a simple local ascii file. This give me just
garbage, as [B@fd2e84b (that change every time,
seems to be a memory address, not the contents..).
<pre>
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
try {
URL j_urlobj = new URL("http://www.google.com";);
URLConnection j_urlcon = j_urlobj.openConnection();
BufferedInputStream j_bis =
   (BufferedInputStream)j_urlcon.getInputStream();
byte[] j_data = new byte[4096];
int j_size;
j_size = j_bis.read(j_data, 0, 4096);
while (j_size != -1) {
out.print(j_data);
j_size = j_bis.read(j_data, 0, 4096);
j_bis.close();
} catch (Exception e) { out.print(e.toString()); }
</pre>
What is wrong?? Thank you!
Stefano

Answer 1

I try your code and it's work right with a little change....
The problem is that you read bytes, so if you want something readable try to convert to a String.
String s = new String(j_data)
out.println(s);
Here, the complete code:
try {
URL j_urlobj = new URL("http://www.google.com");
URLConnection j_urlcon = j_urlobj.openConnection();
BufferedInputStream j_bis =
new BufferedInputStream(j_urlcon.getInputStream());
byte[] j_data = new byte[4096];
int j_size;
j_size = j_bis.read(j_data, 0, 4096);
while (j_size != -1) {
out.print(new String(j_data));
j_size = j_bis.read(j_data, 0, 4096);
j_bis.close();
} catch (Exception e) { out.print(e.toString()); }