HttpURLConnection: how to read the answer

I'm going nuts on this. (as most people posting here lol)

I have a server written by somebody else and I'm sending reques开发者_如何学编程t to it to retrieve info.

I know that it works because I have some webpages that the other programmer used to test.

I would like to ask the question to the guy directly but since he lives in Japan and my in Spain its a bit complicated to communicate

my request works fine and I get the right response code but then I'm stuck, I don't know how to read the HttpURLConnection object to get the content.

in the web browser I get simply :

DOC_FOUND
ID
5
AUTHOR
adrian
TITLE
the adrian
DESCRIPTION

I tried getHeaderFields and getInputStream with no luck (I might be using them wrong)

Any ideas ?

Jason

Wrap your input stream with some kind of reader.

BufferedReader buf = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(urlcon.getInputStream()));

Without code the best I can do is point you to a tutorial of how to properly connect. Maybe you will notice your error:

how-open-url-read-contents-httpurl-connection-java

Have you considered a simple wrapper around URLConnection that does all the heavy-lifting for you? With Resty it could be as simple as:

new Resty().text(url).toString();

if your content is plain text;

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