how do i read a web page into a string?

[sde]

i have a little web service i need to read with java.

url: http://mysite.com/myservice.php?name=foo

then the response just gives me either a url if that name exists, or a '0' if it doesn't.

i'm going to google it now and i'll post my answer if i find it sooner than i get a response. it makes for good site content.

[sde]

i forgot to post before i left work yesterday. here is the solution:

import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;

...

URL nameURLRequest = new URL("http://mysite.com/webservice.php?name=sde");
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
  nameURLRequest.openStream()));

String nameURLResponse;

if((nameURLResponse = in.readLine()) == null)
  nameURLResponse = "0";

in.close();