How to fetch HTML in Java

Question

Without the use of any external library, what is the simplest way to fetch a website\'s HTML content into a String?

Answer 1

This has worked well for me:

URL url = new URL(theURL);
InputStream is = url.openStream();
int ptr = 0;
StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
while ((ptr = is.read()) != -1) {
    buffer.append((char)ptr);
}

Not sure at to whether the other solution(s) provided are any more efficient or not.