URL           url;
HttpURLConnection urlConnection = null;
InputStream   urlStream;
String        type;
String        content;
String          newContent;
String        upperCaseContent;

try {
  url = new URL(form_url);
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
  return "MalformedURLException.";
}

if (url.getProtocol().compareTo("http") != 0)
  return "Protocol isn't http.";

try {
  // open the connection...
  urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
  urlConnection.setAllowUserInteraction(false); 

  // set the cookies to send...
  urlConnection.setRequestProperty("Cookie", theCookies);

  // then, set the referrer
  urlConnection.setRequestProperty("Referer", pre_page_url);

  urlStream = url.openStream();

  type = urlConnection.guessContentTypeFromStream(urlStream);

  if (urlConnection == null)
    return "urlConnection is null";
  if (urlStream == null)
    return "urlStream doesn't contain ****.";

  // read in the entire URL content
  byte b[] = new byte[1000];
  int numRead = urlStream.read(b);
  content = new String(b, 0, numRead);
  while (numRead != -1) {
    numRead = urlStream.read(b);
    if (numRead != -1) {
      newContent = new String(b, 0, numRead);
      content += newContent;
    }
  }

  urlStream.close();