Solved 'Pinging' a Web URL?

Hey everyone, now before you say anything, I just used the word 'ping' to try and explain what I mean. I already know a bit of Java, and am working on a new thing to create users on a forums using a REST API. (I don't really know what that is either, haha) However, in order to use it it kind of goes like this:
api.php?username=boboman13&password=password
Then it returns a hash which supposedly looks like this:
{
t34ophqo8fh398woi3432uro3749832yoqr986w98eoyr893
}
So I understand how to do everything until I hit this web part. How would I go about 'pinging' that URL with a String, and how could I retrieve the hash returned?

 

I'm sure that there are loads of tutorials out there, but here is an example:

Code:java

URL url = new URL("[url]http://www.google.com/[/url]");
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(url.openStream()));
String line = reader.readLine();
System.out.println(line);

 

Thanks!

chasechocolate are the URL codes only for this forums or are they necessary in the code?

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

boboman13
BBCode adds those. Remove them

 

gomeow thank you very much, same with chasechocolate.