public static boolean getURLContent(final String url, final StringBuffer content)
throws MalformedURLException, IOException {
HttpClient httpClient = HttpUtil.getClient();
try {
GetMethod call = new GetMethod(url);
int status = httpClient.executeMethod(call);
if (status == 200) {
InputStream response = call.getResponseBodyAsStream();
try {
byte[] buffer = new byte[2048];
int size = response.read(buffer);
while (size > 0) {
for (int idx = 0; idx < size; idx++) {
content.append((char) buffer[idx]);
}
size = response.read(buffer);
}
} catch (Exception e) {
// we can ignore this because the content comparison will fail
}
}
} catch (Throwable e) {
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
PrintWriter writer2 = new PrintWriter(writer);
e.printStackTrace(writer2);
content.append(writer.getBuffer());
return false;
}
return true;
}
