Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.net.HttpURLConnection; public class Main { private static HttpURLConnection httpConn; /** * Returns only one line from the server's response. This method should be * used if the server returns only a single line of String. * * @return a String of the server's response * @throws IOException * thrown if any I/O error occurred */ public static String readSingleLineRespone() throws IOException { InputStream inputStream = null; if (httpConn != null) { inputStream = httpConn.getInputStream(); } else { throw new IOException("Connection is not established."); } BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream)); String response = reader.readLine(); reader.close(); return response; } }