Java Utililty Methods URL Connection

String url = "http://" + serverName + "/pages/uri_template";
String template = getFromUrl(url);
if (template.contains("{pageid}"))
    template = template.replace("{pageid}", pageid);
if (template.contains("{docid}"))
    template = template.replace("{docid}", docid);
return template;

URLConnection conn = new URL(url).openConnection();
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
String result = in.readLine();
return result;

Properties props = new Properties();
InputStream in = getUrlAsStream(urlString);
props.load(in);
in.close();
return props;

URL url = new URL(urlAddress);
URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
connection.setUseCaches(false);
InputStream inStream = null;
inStream = connection.getInputStream();
InputStreamReader inStreamReader = new InputStreamReader(inStream);
BufferedReader buffer = new BufferedReader(inStreamReader);
StringBuffer strbuf = new StringBuffer();
...

URLConnection conn = u.openConnection();
conn.setDoOutput(true);
OutputStreamWriter postWriter = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
boolean first = true;
for (Entry<String, String> ent : data.entrySet()) {
    if (!first)
        postWriter.write("&");
    String set = URLEncoder.encode(ent.getKey(), "UTF-8") + "="
...

StringBuffer ret = new StringBuffer();
BufferedReader br = null;
try {
    URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
    br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
    String line;
    while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
        ret.append(line).append("\n");
...

List list = new ArrayList();
try {
    System.out.println("Loading - " + StrurlStringing);
    URLConnection connection = StrurlStringing.openConnection();
    connection.connect();
    BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
    String str = in.readLine();
    while (str != null) {
...

String contentType = connection.getContentType();
String[] values = contentType.split(";");
String charset = defaultEncoding; 
for (String value : values) {
    value = value.trim();
    if (value.toLowerCase(Locale.ENGLISH).startsWith("charset=")) {
        charset = value.substring("charset=".length());
return charset;

URLConnection con = url.openConnection();
String location = con.getHeaderField("Location");
if (location != null) {
    return new URL(location);
return url;

return getURLInputStream(url, DEFAULT_URL_CONNECT_TIMEOUT, DEFAULT_URL_READ_TIMEOUT);