Natural Language Processing with Java Cookbook

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There are numerous other methods that provide additional information regarding the connection and page. The following are a few that may be of interest:

• getContentLength: Returns the length of the data being transferred
• getContentType: Returns the content type
• getDate: Returns the date of the page
• getExpiration: Indicates when the page will no longer be considered valid
• getLastModified: Shows when the page was last modified

Add the following code to the main function to illustrate these functions for the page. The Date class is used to convert the integer date returned by the last three methods into a more readable form:

System.out.println(httpURLConnection.getContentLength());System.out.println(httpURLConnection.getContentType()); ...