Printing contents of a web page

[Java Tip]

Following code snippet prints contents of a web page, character by character.

String str = "http://www.java.forums.org";
try {
        URL u = new URL(str);
        URLConnection uc = u.openConnection( );
        InputStream raw = uc.getInputStream( );
        InputStream buffer = new BufferedInputStream(raw);       
        Reader r = new InputStreamReader(buffer);
        int c;
        while ((c = r.read( )) != -1) {
          System.out.print((char) c);
        } 
      }
      catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
        System.err.println(str + " is not a parseable URL");
      }
      catch (IOException ex) {
        System.err.println(ex);
}