HttpConnection h = new HttpConnection();
        InputStream input = h.openInputStream();
        int len = (int) h.httpConn.getLength();

        StringBuffer raw = new StringBuffer();

        if(len > 0)
        {
            byte[] data = new byte[len];
            while( -1 != (len = input.read(data)))
            {
                raw.append(new String(data, 0, len));
            }
        }

        response = raw.toString();
        input.close();
        h.httpConn.close();
        //System.out.println("Response -----> " + response);

        return response;

public String getContents(InputStream stream) {
    String contents = null;
    try{
        contents = new String(IOUtilities.streamToBytes(stream), "UTF-8");
    }
    catch(Exception e) {
        //encoding error
    }
    return contents;
}