simpleGet.java

package Ontology;
 
	import java.io.BufferedReader;
	import java.io.IOException;
	import java.io.InputStreamReader;
	import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
	import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
	import java.net.MalformedURLException;
	import java.net.ProtocolException;
	import java.net.URL;

	public class simpleGet {

	  /**
	   * @param args
	   */
	  public static void main(String[] args) {
	      HttpURLConnection connection = null;
	      OutputStreamWriter wr = null;
	      BufferedReader rd  = null;
	      StringBuilder sb = null;
	      String line = null;
	    
	      URL serverAddress = null;
	    
	      try {
	          serverAddress = new URL("http://cn.linkedin.com/pub/lenin-mookiah/14/764/947");
	          //set up out communications stuff
	          connection = null;
	        
	          //Set up the initial connection
	          connection = (HttpURLConnection)serverAddress.openConnection();
	          connection.setRequestMethod("GET");
	          connection.setDoOutput(true);
	          connection.setReadTimeout(10000);
	                    
	          connection.connect();
	        
	          //get the output stream writer and write the output to the server
	          //not needed in this example
	          //wr = new OutputStreamWriter(connection.getOutputStream());
	          //wr.write("");
	          //wr.flush();
	        
	          //read the result from the server
	          rd  = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
	          sb = new StringBuilder();
	        
	          while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null)
	          {
	              sb.append(line + '\n');
	          }
	        
	          System.out.println(sb.toString());
	                    
	      } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
	          e.printStackTrace();
	      } catch (ProtocolException e) {
	          e.printStackTrace();
	      } catch (IOException e) {
	          e.printStackTrace();
	      }
	      finally
	      {
	          //close the connection, set all objects to null
	          connection.disconnect();
	          rd = null;
	          sb = null;
	          wr = null;
	          connection = null;
	      }
	  }
	}