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Issue with Retrieving JSON from Webpage Android

So I'm facing some difficulty in trying to, what seems simply, obtain a JSON file from a webpage, and then parse it on Android. I have already built the parser, and tested it in Eclipse (in fact, all of the code works in Eclipse). However, when I run the HttpURLConnection and try to retrieve the JSON data in a string in Android Studio, I end up getting no exceptions and an almost empty string (I think I am getting the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and last character, but not too sure). I have included parts of the code below, and
URL url = null;
HttpURLConnection urc = null;
try {
url = new URL(query);
urc = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
InputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(urc.getInputStream());
jsoncontent = readStream(in);
System.out.println(jsoncontent);
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
finally {
urc.disconnect();
}
The code for readStream() is below
private static String readStream(InputStream is) throws IOException {
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is),1000);
for (String line = r.readLine(); line != null; line =r.readLine()){
sb.append(line);
}
is.close();
return sb.toString();
}

Here is an exact chunk from an assignment I did last semester:
URL u = new URL(url);
HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) u.openConnection();
conn.setRequestMethod("GET");
conn.setRequestProperty("Accept", "text/html");
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
JSONObject searchResults = new JSONObject(in.readLine());
...
conn.disconnect();
You seem to be missing setRequestMethod("GET") and setRequestProperty("Accept", "text/html") in your code. Hope this helps.

reCaptcha response is blank

I have implemented reCaptcha in the application I am working on. Somehow I am getting a blank reCaptcha response.
It works fine with localhost, but I am having a problem in upper environments like DEV, TEST. User response is being verified on server side (servlet).
Anyone having idea or faced similar problem ? Let me know if you need more info.
String userresponse = (String) request.getAttribute("g-recaptcha-response");
URL url = null;
HttpURLConnection conn = null;
String line, outputString = "";
try {
url = new URL(https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify?secret=privateKey&response=userresponse);
conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
conn.setRequestMethod("GET");
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
outputString += line;
}
Log.debug("Google response is :- "+outputString);
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

Grabbing JSON works from one link, not from another

I'm doing a simple JSON grab from two links with the same code. I'm doing it two separate times, so the cause of my issue isn't because they're running into each other or something.
Here is my code:
#Override
protected String doInBackground(Object... params) {
try {
URL weatherUrl = new URL("my url goes here");
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) weatherUrl
.openConnection();
connection.connect();
responseCode = connection.getResponseCode();
if (responseCode == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
InputStream inputStream = connection.getInputStream();
Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(inputStream);
int contentLength = connection.getContentLength();
char[] charArray = new char[contentLength];
reader.read(charArray);
String responseData = new String(charArray);
Log.v("test", responseData);
When I try this with:
http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/developer-calendar#google.com/public/full?alt=json
I get an error of having an array lenth of -1
For this link:
http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?id=5815135
It returns fine and I get a log of all of the JSON. Does anyone have any idea why?
Note: I tried stepping through my code in debug mode, but I couldn't catch anything. I also downloaded a Google chrome extension for parsing json in the browser and both urls look completely valid. I'm out of ideas.

Log this: int contentLength = connection.getContentLength();
I don't see the google url returning a content-length header.
If you just want String output from a url, you can use Scanner and URL like so:
Scanner s = new Scanner(new URL("http://www.google.com").openStream(), "UTF-8").useDelimiter("\\A");
out = s.next();
s.close();
(don't forget try/finally block and exception handling)
The longer way (which allows for progress reporting and such):
String convertStreamToString(InputStream is) throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new
InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8"));
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line = null;
try {
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null)
sb.append(line + "\n");
} catch (IOException e) {
// Handle exception
} finally {
try {
is.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
// Handle exception
}
}
return sb.toString();
}
}
and then call String response = convertStreamToString( inputStream );

How to download/read html file via ftp url?

I am having trouble getting the html text from this html file via ftp. I use beautiful soup to read an html file via http/https but for some reason I cannot download/read from an ftp. Please help!
Here is the url.
a link
Here is my code so far.
BufferedReader reader = null;
String total = "";
String line;
ur = "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/832/billtext/html/house_resolutions/HR00001_HR00099/HR00014I.htm"
try {
URL url = new URL(ur);
URLConnection urlc = url.openConnection();
InputStream is = urlc.getInputStream(); // To download
reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8"));
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null)
total += reader.readLine();
} finally {
if (reader != null)
try { reader.close();
} catch (IOException logOrIgnore) {}
}

This code working for me, Java 1.7.0_25. Notice that you were storing one of every two lines, calling reader.readLine() both in the condition and in the body of the while loop.
public static void main(String[] args) throws MalformedURLException, IOException {
BufferedReader reader = null;
String total = "";
String line;
String ur = "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/832/billtext/html/house_resolutions/HR00001_HR00099/HR00014I.htm";
try {
URL url = new URL(ur);
URLConnection urlc = url.openConnection();
InputStream is = urlc.getInputStream(); // To download
reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8"));
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
total += line;
}
} finally {
if (reader != null) {
try {
reader.close();
} catch (IOException logOrIgnore) {
}
}
}
}

First thought this is related to a wrong path resolution as discussed here but this does not help.
I don't know what is exactly going wrong here but I can only reproduce this error on this ftp-server and with the MacOS Java 1.6.0_33-b03-424. I can't reproduce it with Java 1.7.0_25. So perhaps you check for a Java update.
Or you could use commons FTPClient to retrieve the file:
FTPClient client = new FTPClient();
client.connect("ftp.legis.state.tx.us");
client.enterLocalPassiveMode();
client.login("anonymous", "");
client.changeWorkingDirectory("bills/832/billtext/html/house_resolutions/HR00001_HR00099");
InputStream is = client.retrieveFileStream("HR00014I.htm");

Method to download website source returns nothing

I created method to download any url's source and show it in textview called checkView but when I call it with button it returns me empty textview instead of string with website code:
void getWebsite(String search) {
String res = null;
try {
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer("");
String line = "";
URL url = new URL("http://drinkify.org" + search);
URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
conn.getInputStream()));
String NL = System.getProperty("line.separator");
while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line + NL);
res = sb.toString();
}
} catch (Exception e) {
}
checkView.setText(res);
}
Any thoughts?

First of all, add a log-statement or a breakpoint to see if the text is actually downloaded.
My guess is that you get an exception (missing INTERNET-permission in the manifest?) that gets swallowed in your catch (Exception e), add a breakpoint within the catch clause to test it.