How to use HTTP connection instead of a stream socket

This J2ME tips illustrates a method of using HHTP connection instead of a stream socket. This code looks very similar to the socket code, but there is a striking difference. The socket code first opened an OutputStream and sent the request to the webserver before trying to read the response.

String url = "http://learnsunjava.blogspot.com/"; conn = (HttpConnection)Connector.open(url, Connector.READ_WRITE); if (conn.getResponseCode( ) == HttpConnection.HTTP_OK) { is = conn.openInputStream( ); final int MAX_LENGTH = 128; byte[] buf = new byte[MAX_LENGTH]; int total = 0; while (total <>) { int count = is.read(buf, total, MAX_LENGTH - total); if (count < 0) { break; } total += count; } is.close( ); String reply = new String(buf, 0, total); }