String message = URLEncoder.encode(“my message”, “UTF-8”); try { // instantiate the URL object with the target URL of the resource to // request URL url = new URL(“http://www.example.com/comment”); // instantiate the HttpURLConnection with the URL object – A new // connection is opened every time by calling the openConnection // method of the protocol handler … Read more
Streams (InputStream and OutputStream) transfer binary data. If you want to write a string to a stream, you must first convert it to bytes, or in other words encode it. You can do that manually (as you suggest) using the String.getBytes(Charset) method, but you should avoid the String.getBytes() method, because that uses the default encoding … Read more
The goal of InputStream and OutputStream is to abstract different ways to input and output: whether the stream is a file, a web page, or the screen shouldn’t matter. All that matters is that you receive information from the stream (or send information into that stream.) InputStream is used for many things that you read … Read more
There seem to be many links and other such stuff, but no actual code using pipes. The advantage of using java.io.PipedInputStream and java.io.PipedOutputStream is that there is no additional consumption of memory. ByteArrayOutputStream.toByteArray() returns a copy of the original buffer, so that means that whatever you have in memory, you now have two copies of … Read more