Bookmark utility part 2 - Get page title
HTML download
Last week we made a small program that could receive dropped objects. If
you tried to drop an URL from Netscape or Explorer over this application,
you probably noticed that only the URL appeared. So it would be nice to
get the title of the page as well. This week you can implement such an
application.
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If you looked at the tasks from week 48
last year, you would get a free ride this week. If not, please review
that page for information on how to download an URL.
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Now that you have the HTML source code, it should be fairly easy to
extract the title. Examine the heading of the file, and you will find the
<TITLE> tag and </TITLE> end tag. It is of course the
text in between that you are interested in.
Make a small application that accepts an URL as a parameter on the command
line and outputs the title of the page. If no title tags are found, it
should yield so.
GetTitle.java
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Finally, this week, you could now combine the feature above with last
week's drag and drop actions. When an URL is dropped into your application,
both the URL and the title would be shown.
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