URLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
connection.connect();

SAXParserFactory spf = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
SAXParser sp = spf.newSAXParser();
XMLReader xr = sp.getXMLReader();

URLParser responseParser = new URLParser();
xr.setContentHandler(responseParser);
xr.parse(new InputSource(url.openStream()));