Trying to read from a URL(in Java) produces gibberish on certain occaisions

Question

I\'m trying to read from a URL, and then print the result.

BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
     new InputStreamReader(new URL(\"http://somesite.com/\").o         


        

Answer 1

So after much searching I found the answer to this. The xml is read as gibberish because it is Gzip compressed. The way to read this is by using the GZIPInputStream. This is because the XML is compressed differently.

HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
    connection.setRequestProperty("Accept-Encoding", "gzip");
    InputStreamReader in = new InputStreamReader (new GZIPInputStream(connection.getInputStream()));
    String str;            
    while (true) {
 int ch = in.read();
 if (ch==-1) {
    break;
 }