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.MalformedURLException; import java.net.URL; public class Main { public static String getAsStringFromURL(String urlString) { String retval = ""; InputStream is = null; if ((is = downloadFromURL(urlString)) != null) { try { retval = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is)).readLine();//String(IOUtils.toByteArray(is)); } catch (IOException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } } return retval; } public static InputStream downloadFromURL(String urlString) { InputStream retval = null; try { URL url = new URL(urlString); HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); //URLConnection ucon = url.openConnection(); con.setRequestMethod("GET"); con.setDoInput(true); retval = con.getInputStream(); } catch (MalformedURLException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } catch (IOException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } return retval; } }