Woot

UrlHelper.java

public static String encode(String input) {
    StringBuilder resultStr = new StringBuilder();
    for (char ch : input.toCharArray()) {
        if (isUnsafe(ch)) {
            resultStr.append('%');
            resultStr.append(toHex(ch / 16));
            resultStr.append(toHex(ch % 16));
        } else {
            resultStr.append(ch);
        }
    }
    return resultStr.toString();
}

private static char toHex(int ch) {
    return (char) (ch < 10 ? '0' + ch : 'A' + ch - 10);
}

private static boolean isUnsafe(char ch) {
    return ch > 128 || ch < 0 || " %$&+,/:;=?@<>#%".indexOf(ch) >= 0;
}

public static String getTextFromUrl(URL url) throws IOException {
    URLConnection con = url.openConnection();
    con.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB;     rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)");
    InputStream in = con.getInputStream();
    String encoding = con.getContentEncoding();
    encoding = encoding == null ? "UTF-8" : encoding;

    ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    byte[] buffer = new byte[8192];
    int len;
    while ((len = in.read(buffer)) != -1) {
        baos.write(buffer, 0, len);
    }
    return new String(baos.toByteArray(), encoding);
}