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+package edu.brown.hackathon.fifteenminutes;%0A%0Aimport java.io.BufferedReader;%0Aimport java.io.IOException;%0Aimport java.io.InputStreamReader;%0Aimport java.net.URL;%0A%0Aimport com.google.gson.JsonObject;%0Aimport com.google.gson.JsonParser;%0A%0Apublic class HttpUtil %7B%0A  %0A  public static JsonObject doHttpRequest(String urlAsString) throws IOException %7B%0A    URL url = new URL(urlAsString);%0A    BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(%0A        url.openStream()));%0A    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();%0A    String line;%0A    while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) %7B%0A      sb.append(line);%0A    %7D%0A    reader.close();%0A    %0A    JsonParser parser = new JsonParser();%0A    return parser.parse(sb.toString()).getAsJsonObject();%0A  %7D%0A  %0A  public static void main(String%5B%5D args) throws IOException %7B%0A    JsonObject obj = doHttpRequest(%22http://fifteen-minutes.appspot.com/is_famous%22);%0A    System.out.println(%22====%3E %22 + obj.get(%22userId%22));%0A  %7D%0A%0A%7D%0A

Add a little utility to do HTTP requests.