Doing URL fetch with Basic authorization from AppEngine

BasicAuthFetch

@GET
@Path("/urlfetch/{url}")
public Response urlFetch(@PathParam("url") String userUrl) {
    String result = "";
    try {
        URL url = new URL("https://" + userUrl);
        HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

        // Header is "Basic <base64 encoded username:password>"
        // e.g. echo "kevin:password" | openssl env -base64 will give you this
        
        connection.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic a2V2aW46cGFzc3dvcmQK");
        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
        String line;
        while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
            log.info("Fetched:" + line);
            result+=line;
        }
        reader.close();

    } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
        // ...
        log.info(e.toString());
    } catch (IOException e) {
        // ...
        log.info(e.toString());
    }
    return Response.ok(result).build();
}