Opening URLConnection

[Java Tip]

URLConnection is required to play with the contents of the web page. Following code snippet opens URLConnection for the given website.

try {
  URL u = new URL("http://www.cricinfo.com/");
  URLConnection uc = u.openConnection( );
}
catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
  System.err.println(ex);
}
catch (IOException ex) {
  System.err.println(ex);
}