Http Helper -> Java Class to read the content of a webpage

HttpHelper.java

package controllers;


import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

public class HttpHelper {


    public static String get(String url) {

        String result;
        result = "";

        try {

            DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
            HttpGet getRequest = new HttpGet(url);
            getRequest.addHeader("accept", "application/json");

            HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(getRequest);

            if (response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() != 200) {
                throw new RuntimeException("Failed : HTTP error code : "
                        + response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode());
            }

            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
                    new InputStreamReader((response.getEntity().getContent())));

            String output;

            while ((output = br.readLine()) != null) {
                result = result + output;
            }

            httpClient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();

        } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {

            e.printStackTrace();

        } catch (IOException e) {

            e.printStackTrace();
        }


        return result;

    }


}