How to keep newlines and empty lines when geting remote url content using HttpURLConnection?

Question

I am using following code to obtain some data from my website using android HttpURLConnection method and place it on webview textarea.But unfortunately the obtained data ignores all newlines and empty lines. Could an expert show me how i can keep the empty lines and new lines on my final result ?Thanks in advance.

test.Data.php data:

helloWorld1

next2
next3

output:

helloWorld1next2next3  

expected output:

helloWorld1

next2
next3

Android code:

public String sendGetRequest() {

        try {

            StrictMode.setThreadPolicy(new Builder().permitAll().build());

            HttpURLConnection myURLConnection = (HttpURLConnection) new URL("http://mywebsite.com/testData.php").openConnection();
            myURLConnection.setReadTimeout(60000);
            myURLConnection.setConnectTimeout(60000);
            myURLConnection.setRequestMethod("GET");
            myURLConnection.setUseCaches(false);
            myURLConnection.setDoInput(true);
            myURLConnection.setDoOutput(true);
            myURLConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "text");
            myURLConnection.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Dalvik/2.1.0 (Linux; U; Android 6.0;");

            OutputStream os = myURLConnection.getOutputStream();

            os.close();

            myURLConnection.connect();

            BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(myURLConnection.getInputStream()));


            StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();


            String line;

            while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {

                sb.append(line);

            }
            in.close();


            // Update your UI
            mWebView.loadUrl("javascript:Parseit('" + sb.toString() + "');");


        } catch (Exception e) {

        }
        return null;

    }

javascript on webview:

function Parseit(data)
{

var myTextArea = document.getElementById('area1');
myTextArea.innerHTML += data+"\n";

};

Answer 1

Add a breakline while you are appending the string :

 while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {

                sb.append(line);
                sb.append("\n");
            }