Getting data from URL in java

public String getDataFromURL(String urlStr) throws Exception {
   URL url = new URL(urlStr);
   URLConnection urlCon = url.openConnection();
   BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
                           new InputStreamReader(
                           urlCon.getInputStream()));
   String data = "";
   String line = "";
        
   while ((line = in.readLine()) != null)
          data += line;

   in.close();
   return data;
}