Reading Data from a URL

• The openStream() method connects to the server specified in the URL and returns an InputStream object fed by the data from that connection.

  public final InputStream openStream() throws IOException
  

• Any headers that precede the actual data are stripped off before the stream is opened.

• Network connections are less reliable and slower than files. Buffer with a BufferedInputStream or a BufferedReader.

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