Thread: oracle Reading Directly from a URL code not working properly

I'm trying to learn how to download images and files from a website trough a java program. The code below is copied from Reading Directly from a URL (The Java™ Tutorials > Custom Networking > Working with URLs). This program is supposed to display the html file code from the url provided.

Quoted from the site:"When you run the program, you should see, scrolling by in your command window, the HTML commands and textual content from the HTML file located at Oracle | Hardware and Software, Engineered to Work Together. "

My problem is that it works for some websites, but not for interfacelift.com. It doesn't display anything for that website. I'm trying to figure out why.

import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
 
public class URLReader {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
 
    URL oracle = new URL("http://interfacelift.com/");
    BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
    new InputStreamReader(oracle.openStream()));
 
    String inputLine;
    while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
        System.out.println(inputLine);
    in.close();
}
}

Originally Posted by Norm

The site might not respond to non-browser accesses. What do you get in a browser?

It opens the website like it should.