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; import java.net.URL; import java.nio.charset.Charset; public class Main { /** * Make an HTTP request to the given URL and return a String as the response. */ private static String makeHttpRequest(URL url) throws IOException { String jsonResponse = ""; // If the URL is null, then return early. if (url == null) { return jsonResponse; } HttpURLConnection urlConnection = null; InputStream inputStream = null; try { urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); urlConnection.setReadTimeout(10000 /* milliseconds */); urlConnection.setConnectTimeout(15000 /* milliseconds */); urlConnection.setRequestMethod("GET"); urlConnection.connect(); /* If the request was successful (response code 200), then read the input stream and parse the response. */ if (urlConnection.getResponseCode() == 200) { inputStream = urlConnection.getInputStream(); jsonResponse = readFromStream(inputStream); } else { //handle exception } } catch (IOException e) { //handle exception } finally { if (urlConnection != null) { urlConnection.disconnect(); } if (inputStream != null) { inputStream.close(); } } return jsonResponse; } /** * Convert the {@link InputStream} into a String which contains the * whole JSON response from the server. */ private static String readFromStream(InputStream inputStream) throws IOException { StringBuilder output = new StringBuilder(); if (inputStream != null) { InputStreamReader inputStreamReader = new InputStreamReader(inputStream, Charset.forName("UTF-8")); BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(inputStreamReader); String line = reader.readLine(); while (line != null) { output.append(line); line = reader.readLine(); } } return output.toString(); } }