How to read a zip file from a remote URL without extracting it

File class is not designed to work with remote files. It only supports files that are available on a local file system. To open a stream on a remote file, you can use HttpURLConnection.

Call getInputStream() on an HttpURLConnection instance to get an input stream that you can process further.

Example:

String url= "http://www.nseindia.com/content/historical/EQUITIES/2015/NOV/cm03NOV2015bhav.csv.zip";
InputStream is = new URL(url).openConnection().getInputStream();

None of the above has worked for me.

What did work like a charm, is this:

InputStream inputStream = new URL( urlString ).openStream();