#urlconnection

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/** * Sends an HTTP GET request to a url * * @param endpoint - The URL of the server. (Example: " http://www.yahoo.com/search") * @param requestParameters - all the request parameters (Example: "param1=val1&param2=val2"). Note: This method will add the question mark (?) to the request - DO NOT add it yourself * @return - The response from the end point */ public static String sendGetRequest(String endpoint, String requestParameters) { String result = null; if (endpoint.startsWith("http://")) { // Send a GET request to the servlet try { // Send data String urlStr = endpoint; if (requestParameters != null && requestParameters.length () > 0) { urlStr += "?" + requestParameters; } URL url = new URL(urlStr); URLConnection conn = url.openConnection (); // Get the response BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream())); StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(); String line; while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) { sb.append(line); } rd.close(); result = sb.toString(); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } return result; }