gistfile1.txt

        try {
          URL url = new URL (urlStr);
            
          String encoding = Base64Coder.encodeString(authInfo);
    
         // Need to work with URLConnection to set request property
          URLConnection uc = url.openConnection();
          uc.setRequestProperty  ("Authorization", "Basic " + encoding);
          BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(uc.getInputStream()));
          StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
          String line;
          while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) { sb.append(line); }
          JSONTokener tokener = new JSONTokener(sb.toString());
          JSONArray array = new JSONArray(tokener);
          JSONObject tweetJSON = null;
          for(int i=0; i<array.length(); i++) {
        	  tweets.add(new Tweet((JSONObject) array.get(i)));
          }
        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
        	Log.e(APP_NAME, "Invalid URL");
        } catch (IOException e) {
        	Log.e(APP_NAME, "Error reading URL");
        } catch(JSONException e) {
        	Log.e(APP_NAME, e.getMessage());
        }