/*      net_util.java
        Copyright 1998 Kyle R. Burton

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*/

/**
 *
 * file: net_util.java
 *
 * description:  this file will hold utility classes and generic functions for
 *  network communicaitons
 *
 *
 * revision list:
 *   Tue Apr 28 15:32:46 EDT 1998 KRB - created the file
 *
 */
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;

public class net_util {
  public static boolean show_diagnostics = false;
  public static int buff_size = 1024;

  // think unix style cat
  public static void CatURL( String url ) throws MalformedURLException, IOException  {
    URL file_url;

    if( show_diagnostics ) {
      System.out.println("net_util::CatURL(String) url is: " + url );
    }

    file_url = new URL(url);
    CatURL(file_url);
  }

  // spew text from url to stdout...
  public static void CatURL( URL url ) throws IOException {
    InputStream is;

    is = url.openStream();
    byte buff[] = new byte[buff_size];
    int bytes_read = 0;
    while(true) {
      bytes_read = is.read(buff);
      if( -1 == bytes_read ) {
        break;
      }

      if( 0 == bytes_read ) {
        continue;
      }

      System.out.print(new String(buff,0,bytes_read));
    }
  }
}