How to open a stream to httpS URL

Question

Hi

I want to open a stream to a httpS URL and read the data.

Kindly let me know how to do it.

Regards Chaitanya

Answer 1

In what language?

This is quite easy to do in something like PHP - a little more complex in other languages, though. Need more info before we can help!

Answer 2

Here's a Sun tutorial on Reading from / Writing to URL connection.

Opening HTTPS connection is no different from opening HTTP connection; if you need to use https-specific methods you can class cast the result of url.openConnection() to HttpsURLConnection:

URL url = new URL("https://your.https.url.here/");
HttpsURLConnection connection = (HttpsURLConnection) myurl.openConnection();