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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 The Mir-coders group
+ *
+ * This file is part of Mir.
+ *
+ * Mir is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * Mir is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with Mir; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
+ *
+ * In addition, as a special exception, The Mir-coders gives permission to link
+ * the code of this program with  any library licensed under the Apache Software License,
+ * The Sun (tm) Java Advanced Imaging library (JAI), The Sun JIMI library
+ * (or with modified versions of the above that use the same license as the above),
+ * and distribute linked combinations including the two.  You must obey the
+ * GNU General Public License in all respects for all of the code used other than
+ * the above mentioned libraries.  If you modify this file, you may extend this
+ * exception to your version of the file, but you are not obligated to do so.
+ * If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version.
+ */
+
+package mir.util;
+
+
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
+import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpException;
+import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethod;
+import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.GetMethod;
+
+import mir.util.UtilExc;
+
+public class HTTPClientHelper {
+  private HttpClient client;
+  private HttpMethod method;
+  
+  public HTTPClientHelper() {
+      client = new HttpClient();
+      client.setConnectionTimeout(5000);
+      client.setTimeout(5000);
+  }
+
+
+  public InputStream getUrl(String anUrl) throws UtilExc{
+    try{
+      method = new GetMethod(anUrl);
+      method.setFollowRedirects(true);
+      method.setStrictMode(false);
+      client.executeMethod(method);
+      InputStream inputStream  = method.getResponseBodyAsStream();
+      return inputStream;
+    }
+    catch (IOException e){
+       throw new UtilExc(e.getMessage());
+    }
+  }
+  
+  public void releaseHTTPConnection() {
+    method.releaseConnection();
+    method.recycle();
+  }
+
+}