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The class URL represents a web resource and can be used to access it.

Here are some ways to define a URL:

	// URL defined using an absolute path
	URL url = new URL("http://www.davisfiore.co.uk/");
	
	// URL defined using a relaive path
	URL url = new URL("http://www.davisfiore.co.uk/");
	URL myPage = new URL(url, "page.html");

	// URL defined using protocol, host name and path
	URL url = new URL("http", "www.davisfiore.co.uk", "/page.html");

	// URL defined using protocol, host name, port and path
	URL url = new URL("http", "www.davisfiore.co.uk", 80, "/page.html");

Here's the code to get a stream to access the content of a resource online:

	URL url = new URL("http://www.davisfiore.co.uk");
	URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
	InputStream is = conn.getInputStream();

Here's the code to escape the special characters:

	URL url = new URL("http://www.davisfiore.co.uk?test=bla bla");
	URI uri = new URI(url.getProtocol(), url.getUserInfo(), url.getHost(),
		url.getPort(), url.getPath(), url.getQuery(), url.getRef());
	url = uri.toURL();
		
	System.out.println(url);

It prints: http://www.davisfiore.co.uk?test=bla%20bla

That's because the class URI does perform escaping.