get image and process into byte[]

get image using Apache HttpComponents

	private byte[] requestImage(String path) throws ServerConnectionException {
		BufferedInputStream inStream = null;

		try {
			HttpResponse response = client.execute(buildGetRequest(
					HttpGet.METHOD_NAME, path, new HashMap()));
			HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
			ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
			if (entity == null) {
				return new byte[0];
			} else {
				inStream = new BufferedInputStream(entity.getContent());
				byte[] bytes = new byte[1024];
				int b = 0;
				while ((b = inStream.read(bytes)) != -1) {
					outputStream.write(bytes);
				}
				outputStream.flush();
				outputStream.close();
				return outputStream.toByteArray();
			}
		} catch (Exception e) {
			throw new ServerConnectionException(e);
		} finally {
			if (inStream != null)
				try {
					inStream.close();
				} catch (IOException e) {
					throw new ServerConnectionException(e);
				}
		}

	}