Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.net.URL; import org.apache.http.HttpResponse; import org.apache.http.StatusLine; import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException; import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient; import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet; import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient; import org.apache.http.protocol.BasicHttpContext; import org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext; public class Main { private static final int HTTP_STATUS_OK = 200; protected static synchronized InputStream getAWebPage(URL url) throws ClientProtocolException, IOException { HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(); HttpContext localContext = new BasicHttpContext(); HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(url.toString()); try { //do the request HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpGet, localContext); StatusLine status = response.getStatusLine(); if (status.getStatusCode() != HTTP_STATUS_OK) { throw new IOException("Invalid response from the IKSU server! " + status.toString()); } //InputStream ist = response.getEntity().getContent(); return response.getEntity().getContent(); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); throw new ClientProtocolException("Protocol Exception! " + e.toString()); } } }