URL Connections

• Construct a URL object from a URL starting with the http or ftp prefix

  URL u = new URL("http://java.sun.com/index.html");

• Use the URL's openConnection() method to get the URLConnection

  URLConnection connection = u.openConnection();

• Call the getInputStream method to obtain an input stream

  InputStream instream = connection.getInputStream();

• You can turn the stream into a scanner in the usual way