Possible to read data from a web browser into java?

Question

Is it possible to read data from a web browser such as IE or Mozilla into a java applet for use and manipulation? If it is, could someone please post some documentation I could look at or a snip-it of code I could use? Thanks.

Answer 1

This will read the content from a site:
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
class Test {
     public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {
          URL u = new URL("http://www.google.com");
          URLConnection uc = u.openConnection();
          BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(uc.getInputStream()));
          String text;
          while( (text = br.readLine()) != null ) {
               System.out.println(text);
}