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// This method takes a URI which can be either a filename (e.g. file://c:/dir/file.html)
// or a URL (e.g. http://host.com/page.html) and returns all HREF links in the document.
public static String[] getLinks(String uriStr) {
    List result = new ArrayList();

    try {
        // Create a reader on the HTML content
        URL url = new URI(uriStr).toURL();
        URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
        Reader rd = new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream());

        // Parse the HTML
        EditorKit kit = new HTMLEditorKit();
        HTMLDocument doc = (HTMLDocument)kit.createDefaultDocument();
        kit.read(rd, doc, 0);

        // Find all the A elements in the HTML document
        HTMLDocument.Iterator it = doc.getIterator(HTML.Tag.A);
        while (it.isValid()) {
            SimpleAttributeSet s = (SimpleAttributeSet)it.getAttributes();

            String link = (String)s.getAttribute(HTML.Attribute.HREF);
            if (link != null) {
                // Add the link to the result list
                result.add(link);
            }
            it.next();
        }
    } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
    } catch (URISyntaxException e) {
    } catch (BadLocationException e) {
    } catch (IOException e) {
    }

    // Return all found links
    return (String[])result.toArray(new String[result.size()]);
}